Sentence examples for withstand as from inspiring English sources

The government can withstand as many as 42 MPs voting against it.

Though a beam in the engine room was mangled in the fire, twisting inward like a broken leg, the main girder remained sound, anchored by material designed to withstand as much as three hours of fire, Mr. Fradua said.

If it can withstand as much compression as tension, then the more complicated geometry can reduce the amount of material needed for the bridge by 0.3%.

Further results reveal the heterogeneity of in-plane forces, bending and twisting moments the box panels have to withstand as well as strain fields in usually inaccessible regions of the panels such as the inner liner.

A rugged player known for his toughness and ability to withstand as well as deliver physical pressure, Pardee built his coaching reputation on defense, turning to the high-flying "run and shoot" offense later in his career.

At this extreme, the temporal discontinuities of poetry, revving and slowing, are as hard to withstand as anything the weirdest visual art does to our sense of space.

The Admiral Clarey bridge was designed to withstand winds as high as 100 mph and waves as high as 5 feet.

These tiles were designed to withstand temperatures as high as 1,650C 3,000FF) as the spacecraft re-entered the Earth's atmosphere.

The use of a Savonius type of vertical axis wind turbine is expanding in urban environments as a result of its ability to withstand turbulence as well as its relatively quiet operation.

A repository for the earth's seeds, Svalbard acts as a fail-safe freezer built within the permafrost to withstand time as well as natural and man-made disasters.

"New York businesses will withstand hardship as long as they know when it is going to be fixed".