The closest she comes to a patient and resistant hero is Cato, who withstood many trials in his vain attempt to protect the Roman Republic, including being pelted with dung.
The banking system has not been able to withstand the trials it has faced as a result of difficult market conditions, global deterioration of confidence in economic affairs, and domestic risk appetite.
"To truly and effectively stem the threat posed by organised crime any initiatives must offer efficiencies not only at the investigation, charge and preliminary stages of the criminal justice process … but must also be capable of withstanding the trial stage – the critical step for securing a conviction," the report said.
Latterly, he withstood severe trials with remarkable fortitude – a near-fatal fall from a tree; Susan's diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease in 2010; his own with lymphoma in 2011; and, when things became impossible, leaving Walled Cottage after 53 years.
Home Noir hopes that the principle of decentralization is one fit to withstand the trials and tribulations of the 21st century.
He is better equipped than anyone I know to withstand the trials in store for him.
Not only have qualities like perseverance and self-control not disappeared; a simple and unchanged measure of those qualities — the marshmallow test — has withstood many trials, including the test of time.
To withstand clinical trials, and to meet the needs of physicians and patients, a prognostic model must have clinical credibility, meaning that the model must posses a high level of accuracy and accessibility for physicians to believe in the value of the model as a prognostic tool.
They have built a vibrant, multiethnic democracy that can withstand this trial.
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.
For value statements to be more than empty slogans, they must withstand the trial by fire of tough calls guiding behavior and decision making when it is least convenient.
