Example sentences of "to ride out [art] " in BNC.

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1 It has been placed in receivership after failing to ride out a long economic recession which has hit the building industry very hard .
2 He taught us how to ride out a storm .
3 It was also important to demonstrate the ability of nuclear forces to ride out a surprise attack .
4 In the absence of a concrete policy towards the pound , the best that the Government can hope for is to ride out the crisis until the next set of trade figures , due on 24 October .
5 Staying in Blackpool to ride out the storm might have been unduly bullish , while retreating to London could have prompted undue alarm bells .
6 But in fact there appears to be little a company chairman can do other than try to ride out the fashion of the moment .
7 THE Government last night signalled its determination to ride out the political storm surrounding its compulsory repatriation of Vietnamese refugees and said it would deport as many as necessary to convince thousands more would-be boat people not to seek refuge in Hong Kong next spring .
8 Sussex , Hampshire and Dorset police reported numerous accidents and ferries had to ride out the high seas until winds dropped to safe levels .
9 Nirvana Inc battened down the hatches and made to ride out the storm .
10 And the inter-island ship , the Nanasipau'u , which might have given me a lift up north , chose to ride out the wind in the lee of the island , unwisely put down both anchors , promptly snapped both chains and then drifted helplessly out to sea .
11 Meanwhile the British warships had to ride out the monsoon .
12 ‘ We 're going to ride out the storm . ’
13 You had only to ride out the storm — inside preferably — ’ with a flash of humour as the heavens reminded him of their still present threat ‘ — and the dust would soon have settled .
14 I believe that Wales is much better placed to ride out the worldwide recession than it has been and I can give the hon. Gentleman this pledge : I and my ministerial colleagues will continue to do everything that we can to attract investment to Wales .
15 The days were long since gone when governments were prepared simply to ride out the turbulence of periodic recessions .
16 The chairman , James Millar , said that while Invergordon could not be immune to the volume and margin pressures currently being experienced by the Scotch whisky industry , the group was well placed through the mix of its business to ride out the present difficulties .
17 But the Ellesmere Port complex has been able to ride out the recession by exporting its highly-successful Astra/Opel range , particularly to the buoyant German economy .
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