#withstand

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it. ↗

— Eric Zorn

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Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#basically #broad #complete #conduct #history

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ↗

— Voltaire

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In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#aggression #been #biological #biological weapons #case

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

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Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. ↗

— Harrison Ford

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Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance. ↗

— Max von Laue

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Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts. ↗

— Titus Livius

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The Society of American Civil Engineers, someone who's going to come in and say to the public, we've looked at, we've examined, we've reviewed the repairs and we think they're strong enough to withstand the type of hurricane that - that could hit the city this season. ↗

— Marc Morial

#city #civil #come #could #engineers

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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