Word: withstands
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Saddam reportedly shuttles among half a dozen underground bunkers -- including one that is luxuriously appointed and designed to withstand a nuclear blast -- or hides out in civilian neighborhoods, which he knows the U.S. will not intentionally attack. Israeli military officials say privately that if they were to retaliate for Iraqi assaults on their territory, they would happily go after Saddam. But even with their renowned ability to ferret out foes, the Israelis cannot get a fix on him. "When it was possible, nobody thought of it," says a high-ranking official in Jerusalem, "and now that everybody is thinking...
...also question the durability of George Bush's skillfully constructed international coalition. Already suffering economicaly, those nations currently arrayed against Iraq cannot withstand endless months of further sanctions. As history shows, embargoes can only get weaker. We share the staff's aversion to war and its hopes for peace, but our sense of realism raises doubts about an indefinite reliance on sanctions...
...power base in the province of Sind. While a cordon sanitaire of friends and relatives kept her insulated from critics, she made sure her public appearances received immense media coverage. Like Aquino's, Bhutto's reputation as restorer of democracy and avenger of her father could not withstand her government's weakness...
...encourage the widespread throw-the-bums-out attitude toward congressional incumbents -- the vast majority of them Democrats -- to boost the chances of Republican challengers. Asked if the anti-incumbent fever might not topple some G.O.P. members of Congress, the official confidently predicted, "I think they feel strong enough to withstand it." Many Republican strategists are not so sanguine. They fear that in next week's voting the Republicans may lose more than 10 House seats, the average for the party that holds the White House in a midterm elections...
Moreover, much as the survival of the Soviet Union in its present form is threatened by unrest among its non-Russian minorities, the Ottoman Empire ultimately could not withstand the nationalist aspirations of its non-Turkish peoples. The Greeks, aided by the English Romantic poet Lord Byron, were the first to break away in the 1820s. The last to revolt were the Arabs. Inspired by Lawrence of Arabia, they broke free of Ottoman domination during World War I, only to come under British and French rule soon afterward...