11.   In budget negotiations a few weeks ago, the endowment barely survived attempts to drastically cut its financing.

12.   In fact, the Coca-Cola plant was still intact Friday and had survived four attempts by gunmen to storm the gates, according to men guarding the plant.

13.   It will undoubtedly survive Congressional attempts to attack it with legislation.

14.   Last month, thanks to support from Bronx City Council members, he survived an attempt by the Council to oust him over his comments about homosexuals.

15.   None survive the attempt.

16.   Only months ago Clinton survived an attempt to remove him from office, impeached for denying a sexual affair with a young White House intern that he eventually admitted.

17.   Posada, who has survived several attempts on his life, told a friend recently that he was afraid he would not live long enough to tell his story.

18.   The art form represents thousands of years of sacred storytelling and inspiration that have, in more recent generations, survived the attempts of English colonists to annihilate them.

19.   The Internet has survived attempts by state legislatures and by Congress to restrict or control its content.

20.   The material is protected by the First Amendment and has survived attempts by legislators to have it outlawed.