Sentence examples for withstand prejudice from inspiring English sources

As I talked to her I tried to see myself from her eyes: I belong by lineage and class to the elite group, that can withstand prejudice and taboos.

"The Arbor" eventually shifts its focus to Lorraine (played in the film by Manjinder Virk), who as the daughter of a white woman and a Pakistani man withstood prejudice growing up (even from her mother) and as an adult endured her own downward spiral of addiction.

KK: Ira's courage was extraordinary – to withstand such prejudice.

Because they were grounded in biologically evolved dispositions and culturally transmitted prejudices that, however strongly entrenched, could not withstand the kind of rational scrutiny to which they have been submitted in the past two centuries.

In science, all hypotheses must withstand the trial-by-fire of experiment; its methodology is self-correcting and objective, unconcerned with petty prejudices or personal conviction.

Absolutely, they can withstand that".

It can withstand the elements.

Neither could withstand the heat.

Can they withstand both absences?

Can she withstand that?

They can also withstand the washing machine.