Sentence examples for withstand punishment from inspiring English sources

Brendan relies more on technical finesse and a capacity to withstand punishment.

And both have the trademark outer casing to withstand punishment meted out by the concrete jungle or jungle gym.

When contract negotiations broke down during training camp, Jacobs set out to become an attractive find for a team seeking a top running back, and that meant banishing the impression that he was not a durable player who could withstand punishment an entire season.

This includes steel construction and laptops specifically designed to withstand punishment.

It is that the ethic of seeking commonality rather than division, of enduring insults rather than retaliating for them, of withstanding punishment in service of a civic ideal in short, anything that might have sustained Annelle Ponder, Fannie Lou Hamer, and the countless other heroes of the civil-rights movement is apparently alien to the President of the United States.

India has proved strong enough to withstand the punishment.

Lemieux has shown some chin to withstand this punishment.

Parents of -- myopic grade-schoolers are forever faced with the problem of finding eyeglass frames that not only fit little faces, but can withstand playground punishment.

Few have questioned Williams's talent and athleticism, but he has been tagged with the N.B.A.'s version of a Scarlet Letter, the dreaded "tweener" label – too slow and lacking the shooting and ball-handling skills required to play on the perimeter and lacking the strength and bulk to withstand the punishment in the low block.

The March 11 earthquake shook the plant — "We were all on our knees, holding onto the railings," one worker recalls — yet the realization that the plant was in trouble took a while to dawn because workers believed that it had been designed to withstand any punishment an earthquake could bring.

In his remarks he made clear that Russia was prepared to withstand worse punishment in the name of restoring a lost part of the country's historic empire, effectively daring world leaders to sever political or economic ties and risk the consequences to their own economies.