Sentence examples for survives contact from inspiring English sources

There is a saying at the Pentagon that no plan survives contact with the enemy.

"No plan survives contact with the enemy," said Crispin Blunt in Wednesday's Commons debate on Brexit.

Nobody in Osborne's books survives contact with money for long, perhaps a consequence of his own long stints of poverty.

As Helmuth von Moltke, a 19th-century German field-marshal, put it: "No plan survives contact with the enemy".

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy and in this instance the enemy is likely to be Washington's hyper-partisan politics and the lobbying power of bruised vested interests.(Photo credit: AFP).

It will take time to catch on even if its theoretical appeal survives contact with reality.What seems clear is that if the economic weakness persists and inflation rates fall further, central banks may become more willing to experiment.

But that theory may not survive contact with reality.

This purpose did not survive contact with reality.

I doubt if any utopian plan has survived contact with the unpredictable reality of events.

How is this prediction going to survive contact with the real world?

A hungry culture survived contact with UBS both sides say Pactual was run at arms' length.