The mission of self-scrutiny is never accomplished, but our worthwhile ideals will survive a vigorous skepticism, even if we lose a few illusions about the unique superiority of those ideals along the way.
France has formally excluded religion from the public arena, but that has not prevented faith from surviving in vigorous pockets.
In the Bronx, United States Representative Eliot L. Engel survived a vigorous challenge from State Senator Larry B. Seabrook in a fierce, racially charged contest.
Liz Krueger, the incumbent in the 26th State Senate District on Manhattan's Upper East Side, held on to her seat early this morning, surviving a vigorous challenge from Andrew S. Eristoff, a former city councilman.
Charles Rangel, a 21-term U.S. congressman and once-towering figure in New York politics whose stature was diminished by an ethics scandal, survived a vigorous challenge on Tuesday to win the Democratic primary.
NEW YORK, June 26 (Reuters) - Charles Rangel, a 21-term U.S. congressman and once-towering figure in New York politics whose stature was diminished by an ethics scandal, survived a vigorous challenge on Tuesday to win the Democratic primary.
Even the toned-down, public version of the one-year progress report released by the White House on Thursday makes clear President Obama is still in search of the leverage he needs to persuade, or compel, Pakistan to close down the safe haven for terrorists and insurgents that has let a battered al Qaeda leadership and a vigorous Taliban survive.
They survive as testimony to a vigorous director with a moral and honest heart.
The team showed only that yeast equipped with human genes could survive, not that they were vigorous and could compete with unaltered strains, cautions Eugene Koonin, an evolutionary biologist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland.
But bacteria can survive for long periods, even after vigorous disinfection procedures, and WGS analysis has shown they are able to travel via pathways no one had predicted.
