11.   Sponsors of the bill withstood repeated attacks by Republican opponents to kill or weaken it.

12.   Still, moves by Brazilian officials to double interest rates and raise taxes gave investors confidence the currency, the real, will withstand speculative attacks.

13.   Studies have concluded that no tall building could withstand an attack like the one carried out by the jet hijackers.

14.   Surviving humans live in floating scrap heaps called atolls, built to withstand attacks from the Smokers.

15.   The latter means that the safe withstood attacks from hand, electrical tools and a torch.

16.   The idea was to build a bunker inside a mountain that could withstand atomic attack by Soviet bombers.

17.   The number after the hyphen indicates the length of time in minutes that the safe was able to withstand the attack.

18.   The number after the hyphen indicates the length of time the safe is able to withstand the attack.

19.   The talks withstood these attacks, but Mitchell became concerned that the growing violence might succeed in derailing them.

20.   Then the building, built to withstand terrorist attacks, shook like a rickety roller coaster.