6 sentences with 'withstood'

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• « The sturdy structure of the building withstood the earthquake. »

• « The engineer designed a bridge that withstood the elements and supported the weight of heavy vehicles. »

• « The civil engineer designed a bridge that withstood the largest earthquake in recent history without collapsing. »

• « Also, despite having conquered large amounts of Byzantine territory, Constantinople itself withstood a massive siege in 718 and Byzantine forces pushed back Arab forces in Anatolia. »

• « Judah was overrun by the Assyrians, but Jerusalem withstood a long enough siege to convince the Assyrians to accept bribes to leave, and instead became a satellite kingdom dominated by the Assyrians but still ruled by a Hebrew king. »

• « A second die-off was unleashed, so barbaric and annihilating that only a few species withstood it: it was the world's second great ecological crisis, and the first caused by pollution, the previous one having been the consequence of overexploitation of natural resources. »

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