Word: withstands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infringement on our business too great for me to ignore," Weiner told the council. "The permit, if granted, will be too devastating for my business to withstand...
...lots were full of McConkey's neighbors and friends, lured there through the winter's cold by the powerful Wal-Mart merchandising mystique and retail prices often below his wholesale cost. He thought then, and thinks today, that he and his partner and brother Richard did everything right to withstand the normal merchandising revolution of the past 40 years brought by good roads, city malls and the early discounters like K Mart...
...East are nervously tracking another design that is much easier to build. Unlike earlier models, the new weapon uses ordinary 1/8-in. bridge wire, a steel fiber common in the construction of suspension bridges. Spun while red-hot around large-diameter steel pipe, the wire strengthens the barrel enough to withstand the pressures of firing long-distance shells. Syria, Libya and other potential users would have no trouble manufacturing such guns...
...mechanic familiar with the boat Browne will pilot blurts out to Strickland: "My bet would be this -- either he wins or he dies. You pay me either way. If he quits or runs behind, I pay you." It also remains to be seen whether Browne's idealism can withstand the self-enforced isolation of the seas, and whether his marriage to Anne, mired in comfort and mutual tolerance, will outlast the rough shocks of separation. And what of Strickland's film? Will it be an expose of a hollow man and woman? "You're not making...
...failures of the 1980s showed the researchers that they knew almost nothing about building machines that could withstand and harness the turbulence of wind. Early models used blades of a type originally designed for helicopters. Since wind pressure could vary considerably from one end of the blade to the other, the rotor would wobble wildly and eventually break off. Sudden gusts of wind could overpower the machine and burn out its energy- converting turbine. Some engineers tried solving the problems by building heavier machines, but that simply made them more expensive...