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has withstood NATO and the United States," asked Russert, will NATO and the United States be exposed as "a paper tiger"?
If we keep our options open and learn to better utilize the reservoirs of natural variation that have been preserved in our gene banks and in the few remaining in situ populations of wild species and landrace varieties, an almost infinite array of novelty can be achieved using traditional, time-proven practices involving crossing and selection of genes that have withstood the test of evolutionary time (Burbank 1914; Hawkes 1958; Rick 1967; Harlan 1975, 1976; Peloquin 1983).
Many Arabs would rather relive the glory days of the 1956 Suez crisis, when the great hero of Arab nationalism, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, withstood an invasion by Britain, France, and Israel.
From atop the brick walls, which withstood fierce attacks by cannonballs and other projectiles, you can enjoy panoramic views out to the east and over San Juan Bay to the modern city.
The change was made by popular demand despite the plea of older residents that it not be made till they, who had heroically withstood the German siege of Leningrad, were dead and gone.