Sentence examples for withstood the challenge of from inspiring English sources

This is particularly so since it has become clear that "retail has withstood the challenge of the Internet".

His mark of 457 in 1921 has withstood the challenge of such great hitters as Rogers Hornsby, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Stan Musial, Joe DiMaggio, and more recently Sammy Sosa, Larry Walker and Jim Rice.

Applause and cheers started to build up in the hotel ballroom as it became obvious that Mr. O'Dwyer, a founder of the coa lition, had easily withstood the challenge of three liberal Congressmen — Representa tives Richard L. Ottinger of Westchester County, Benjamin S. Rosenthal. of Queens and Richard D. McCarthy of Buffalo.

Guillamón, who subsequently became an investigator for CICIG, never lost his confidence regarding Chanax's reliability as a witness; Chanax's testimony about the convicted men, Guillamón later emphasized in a conversation we had, "withstood the challenges of several appeals over many years".

They have withstood the challenges of re-entry and discrimination and may be struggling through them still.

Today US imperialism has withstood the challenges of the 1960s, and moreover has extended its parasitic relationship to the Third World even more by moving manufacturing, not just extraction, to the colonial regions.

It is a deal made to withstand the challenge of time; a good deal, with no space for interpretations or doubts.

Dagan and Townsend surveyed political developments in North Africa, Turkey, and the Gulf, and shared concerns about Pakistan's ability to withstand the challenge of Islamic radicals.

The school system served as an organizational base for this maneuver, which allowed Putin's regime to withstand the challenge of decreased popular support.

Everyone with even a cursory interest in golf is feeling their pulse racing as the boy king prepares to withstand the challenge of the man who could rightly claim to be the greatest king of all.

LONDON, Nov. 23 — The uproar over the British tax agency's loss of computer disks with personal and financial information on about 25 million Britons has rocked the five-month-old government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, raising new questions about its competence and ability to withstand the challenge of a resurgent Conservative Party.