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Example sentences for: withstood

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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.
has withstood NATO and the United States," asked Russert, will NATO and the United States be exposed as "a paper tiger"?
McKay's critique remains only a draft, however, and it has not yet undergone the rigorous peer review that the original paper withstood.
No similar claim has ever withstood scientific examination as robustly as the Torah codes have.
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.