She gained global attention when she survived an assassination attempt at age 15.
Yousafzai, an activist and blogger, was just a child when she survived a Taliban attack on her life for demanding equal access to education for girls and boys.
There were gestures of reconciliation from other political antagonists from her years as president, when she survived at least six coup attempts.
Harrison's account brings moral clarity to the dark fate of the family of Jody Gilley, who was 16 when she survived a rampage by her brother in 1984.
Demonstrating the same spunk she showed when she survived a vicious mugging almost a year ago at the age of 101, Rose Morat walked into a Queens courtroom on Thursday with the help of her walker and vividly described the events of that day.
She first became notable when she survived an attack by the Taliban for going to school.
This grand city I searched through probably looked much the same as when she survived there in the early 1940s; it was still emerging from years of Soviet domination.
Among those aboard was stewardess Violet Jessop, who would repeat the experience four years later when she survived the sinking of one of Titanics sister ships, Britannic, in the First World War.
The second time was when she survived after Hib meningitis, which she had contracted at six months of age.
The audience doesn't actually see the main character being raped, but when she miraculously survives a murder attempt and begins hunting her male attackers, we're treated to every single bloody detail of their demise.
