Sentence examples for withstand the assault from inspiring English sources

But can they withstand the assault on their plans by the Sun?

Less clear was whether those who have backed the road map would have the political courage to withstand the assault.

Even though Constantinople itself managed to withstand the assault, the depredations inflicted on its environs were clear evidence of the wrath of God.

There has been, however, less damage to twigs and branches than in earlier gales, not because the wind had less force but because the trees are now better able to withstand the assault.

Each sample was exposed to the lab-generated sandstorm for five minutes and then weighed to find out how badly it had been eroded.The upshot was that the pattern most resembling scorpion armour with grooves that were 2mm apart, 5mm wide and 4mm high proved best able to withstand the assault.

Cigna has been spending like a drunken sailor to acquire businesses in an effort to build out an organization to withstand the assault of Amazonians, the government and upstart startups alike.

But Chekhov's plays — though in my opinion the greatest since Shakespeare (and before Beckett) in their balancing of life's contradictions — are less able to withstand the assaults of bad or misguided acting.

But, he added, "leadership is a composite of courage and character: courage to take one's society from where it is to where it has never been; and character to withstand the assaults with which the familiar defends itself.

Yet at ground level, the battle is constant, and not all of the reserve has withstood the assault.

Dirleton withstood the assault for several months, until the English victory at Falkirk allowed them to bring up large siege engines, after which the castle was soon reduced.

The towers withstood the assaults.