Sentence examples for withstood them from inspiring English sources

Forty-seven suits were launched, and the plan withstood them all.

Armstrong, who is seeking his fifth successive victory in the Tour, came under repeated attack on two major climbs and withstood them well enough to finish fourth on another scorcher of a day.

For the past three years the people here have lived with the persistent shock of rocket attacks from Gaza, more than 200 of them, but they have withstood them because the notoriously crude rockets have fallen harmlessly in fields or backyards.

But they did their best to withstand them — together.

This book is good enough to withstand them.

This is not because the French economy is withstanding them robustly.

But only experience would show if a parachutist, properly equipped, could withstand them.

Mr Key's personal brand was strong enough to withstand them.

He helped his master launch them against Tony Blair when Mr Brown was chancellor of the exchequer, and then withstand them once he had become prime minister.

When the public sector cuts kick in properly, the people of Middlesbrough will find themselves the least able to withstand them.

Isis and Jabhat al-Nusra are now attacking the Syrian military in rows of suicide trucks, and along fronts so wide that the army often doesn't have the manpower to withstand them.