Word: withstood
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...thing to be attacked by Jack Welch and quite another to be savaged by the European Court of First Instance. That's what Mario Monti, the E.U.'s competition Commissioner, is discovering. Monti famously withstood pressure from Welch, the former General Electric chairman, when the E.U. last year blocked GE's $43 billion acquisition of Honeywell. But last week Monti took a one-two punch from Bo Vesterdorf, president of the Luxembourg-based Court, in separate rulings that savaged the "errors, omissions and contradictions in the Commission's economic reasoning." The court overturned vetoes blocking two mergers: Schneider Electric...
...Arab society, the father is likened to a god; he is called rabb al-'ayyila, master of the family, just as Allah is rabb al-'alamin, master of the universe. No more. To men like human-rights advocate Raji Sourani, who withstood years of persecution by the Israelis when they controlled Gaza City and then more by Arafat's secret police, this is the cruelest blow. When his twins asked for guns, Sourani took them to a toy shop. "I don't want a toy," said Basel, 7. "I want a real gun." "What for?" Sourani asked. "To protect...
...leading power in northeast Asia, able to defy even the mighty Chinese Tang dynasty for a while. Contemporary Koreans?from both the North and South?take pride in Koguryo as a precursor of their own modern states. They wonder how Korean history might have been had the kingdom withstood the 7th century advances of a lethal alliance between the Tang and the Silla kingdom, a rival neighbor to Koguryo's south...
Unsatisfied with Boston’s contract offers and determined to prove he was in good health, Crockett returned to Harvard this fall and was elected team captain. He did more than just hold up over the course of the season—he withstood the twin burdens of an increased workload and the weight of his team’s postseason hopes...
...spoke admiringly of "man-boy" relationships. Now an AIDS official with the state of Maryland, Bauserman said in an e-mail that "it would have been better to find a different outlet" for his writing than the Dutch journal. But he also pointed out that the Rind study had withstood fierce academic scrutiny without being refuted...