Sentence examples for withstand bullets from inspiring English sources

Even windows will withstand bullets, experts say.

Thanks to a little subsidy from Congress and a lot of arm-twisting from the Federal Aviation Administration (overseen by the ridiculed Mr. Mineta, by the way) passenger airplanes that fly in America have, as of last week, cockpit doors that can withstand bullets, crowbars and even hand grenades.

A large-scale array of fewer graphene layers can withstand bullets of much higher velocities than a multilayer graphene sheet with equivalent weight.

We were huddled inside a rusted Brink's-style armoured van, converted into a frontline vehicle meant to withstand bullets and roadside bombs, as the shelling started.

We were huddled inside a rusted Brink's-style armored van, converted into a frontline vehicle meant to withstand bullets and roadside bombs, as the shelling started.

Rather than buy a new car, though, Mr. Neves opted for a 2005 Volkswagen Passat capable of withstanding bullets fired from a.44 Magnum revolver or a 9-millimeter submachine gun.

"Why," his friend replies, "has our city gotten that f**king bad?" In fact, nothing happening in Saginaw County warranted the deployment of an armored vehicle capable of withstanding bullets and the sort of improvised explosive devices that insurgent forces have regularly planted along roads in America's recent war zones.

The crooks aren't making off with your wheels by asking nicely, and when they point that Glock at your rolled-up window, you're best advised to step outside the car: Standard automotive glass and sheet metal won't even withstand a bullet from the smallest handgun.

So nothing in the S500's "occupant cell" indicates that the car withstood 128 bullets in a test to see whether it met European security-industry standards for "street violence where the victim is chosen randomly".

Suppliers for the Department of State send him doors and glass to see if they can withstand sledgehammers and bullets.

Another protester, Karim Medhat Ennarah, said with tears in his eyes: "For 18 days we have withstood teargas, rubber bullets, live ammunition, Molotov cocktails, thugs on horseback, the scepticism and fear of our loved ones, and the worst sort of ambivalence from an international community that claims to care about democracy.