Sentence examples for would have withstood from inspiring English sources

Few, if any, opponents would have withstood it.

He doubts the tower would have withstood another wallop as great as that, but it never came.

The switch in materials came at some aesthetic cost: the carbon-fibre wings would have withstood winds of up to forty miles an hour, while the steel wings retract automatically when gusts reach twenty-four miles an hour, a not infrequent occurrence on the banks of Lake Michigan.

The consequences of a failed Real Life Test could have been very serious: it would not have been impossible to resume my previous identity, but while my relationships survived my coming out, I'm not sure how many would have withstood de-transition.

In statements that some experts see as bold and others as self-serving, Dr. Thornton has argued that at least two enormous buildings would have withstood the Sept. 11 attacks far better than the World Trade Center towers did: the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the world's tallest buildings and, in a structural sense, alter egos of the trade center.

The trial court based its findings of discriminatory effects on a compelling and extensive record that would have withstood appellate review under the deferential standard applicable to such causal and statistical inferences.

But that is a messier history, filled with messy, complex people whose lives wouldn't have withstood the scrutiny of opposition research – as, realistically, most of our lives would not.

Not that Burecho (an anagram of Boucher), built in 2000, wouldn't have withstood an invasion.

"According to doctors, they would not have withstood this ordeal for very much longer," police official David Furtner told the APA.

"The hearings amounted to a superficial summary of information, the quality of which would not have withstood scrutiny in any serious law-enforcement or intelligence investigation," he said.

The former, as Churchill was well aware, would not have withstood a direct hit by a large bomb; the latter survived intact until the Red Army stormed in.