Sentence examples for surviving attempts from inspiring English sources

Isis is surviving attempts to defeat it and holds about the same amount of territory in Iraq and Syria – an area larger than Great Britain – as it did at the end of its blitzkrieg offensives last year.

After surviving attempts on his life, Tintin meets Capone's rival Bobby Smiles, who heads the Gangsters Syndicate of Chicago.

The video is significant because Mr. Al-Saroot, known not only for his soccer skills but also as a folk singer, turned jihadist after surviving attempts on his life and losing close relatives in government attempts to kill him.

The messages warned, among other things, that Obama had tried to stop doctors from caring "for babies born alive after surviving attempted abortions".

Two and a half millennia earlier, an unknown scribe in Iraq had drawn on a clay tablet the very earliest surviving attempt to show the world.

The oldest surviving attempt to depict the world was painted, perhaps about 7,000 or 8,000 years ago, on a cave wall at Jaora in India.

Two other men survived attempts to kill themselves by self-immolation in the towns of Bizerte and Siliana.

From 1989 to 1997, only 2 of 12 babies survived attempts at the procedure, according to an article in The American Journal of Cardiology in May 2000.

These are empirical questions, and if the early results documented by experimental philosophers survive attempts to replicate, the answer would sometimes seem to be negative.

The robot, as you can see from the clip, can walk, trot and climb across all types of terrain, and can even survive attempts to destabilize it by unfeeling humans eager with their kicks.

More young people survive attempts than actually die.