The only leader most Palestinians have ever known, Arafat came tantalizingly close to establishing the state he dedicated his life to winning, and survived myriad brushes with death along the way: wars, plane crashes and Israel's best efforts to put him in the grave.
It's the easiest thing in the world to find drinking buddies, but relationships with longevity that survive the myriad ups and downs in our lives are much harder to come by.
Mitch McConnell, the Senate's Republican minority leader, just held on to his seat in a tough race in Kentucky.Mr Obama survived a myriad of onslaughts, notably on his lack of experience and on his elitist and "celebrity" status.
The medieval privileges accorded to this office survived a myriad of historical events, from the French Revolution to the world wars, before yielding to European Union legislation in the year 2000.
Thousands of children around the world have been killed or maimed by landmines – and the agony of those who survive lingers in myriad ways, from sheer pain and suffering, from discrimination resulting from disability – and in the emotional pain that attends the loss of friends and loved ones.
Yet his respect for life and human dignity survives in myriad campaigns.
In Friday's Wall Street Journal (WSJ) the writers covered in fine detail the many recent machinations of Yahoo's efforts to revive its myriad businesses and, in essence, survive.
But all offer a window on the myriad ways Cubans have learned to survive in their harrowing, hybrid economy.
This free-for-all has forced every supplier that wants to survive to become more efficient, enhancing economic growth in myriad ways.
If al-Qaeda, or the myriad other extremist Islamist groups, can only survive by keeping alliances with the tribes, then it follows that the US might ultimately need the tribes' support to lessen radical Islam's grip on the area.
