But the two of us had logged thousands of miles together and we were banking on the fact that our friendship could withstand our spending an entire vacation inches apart.
Mr. Huckabee, a Baptist minister, was carried in large part by evangelical voters, who helped him withstand extensive spending by Mr. Romney on television advertising and a get-out-the-vote effort.
Meanwhile, a bill to renew an extension of unemployment benefits has been languishing for the last month as legislators debate whether the country's deficit can withstand additional stimulus spending.
Ferguson remarked that Manchester United were well able to withstand any increased spending coming from Anfield, just as they would ride out the impact of last Saturday's crushing 4 1 defeat.
Metal barrels can withstand the pressure Wilson spent almost a year developing the "Liberator", a "wiki weapon" that can be put together from parts which can be printed in a commercial printer.
They in effect bet that America's recovery was solid enough to withstand higher taxes and spending cuts, including a "sequester" due to take effect on March 1st.
Adam Posen was the only member of the Bank of England monetary policy committee who repeatedly voted in favor of more quantitative easing, arguing that the economic recovery was not strong enough to withstand the large public spending cuts under way, the biggest since World War II.
Officials with Entergy, the operator of Indian Point 2 and 3 and owner of the long-defunct Indian Point 1, said they believed the containment buildings and the structures housing spent fuel could withstand an airplane crash.
"It is questionable whether so-called 'voluntary' spending limits could withstand a constitutional challenge," he wrote, though in 1992 Nebraska passed the Campaign Finance Limitation Act that set similarly voluntary spending limits without a court challenge.
Over the past half-decade of budget austerity, American families have withstood $2.7 trillion in spending cuts in everything from senior nutrition to college financial aid to affordable housing.
