bear up against

With an eye to climate change, he has been looking into alternative fruit and vegetables that can “bear up against the erratic weather.”

As my wife, Mica, and I set sail June 26 from Piraeus aboard Windstar Cruises’ 148-passenger Wind Star, I couldn’t help but wonder how reality would bear up against the mythic Greece of my boyhood imaginings.

To bear up against nature’s indifference can be invigorating and also corrective.

There is no question but that whilst this cruel custom is so dreadful that there is no language strong enough to condemn it, it has undoubtedly had the effect of developing in the woman’s character a heroic fortitude, and a power of endurance that enables her to bear up against many of the ills and trials that women are called upon to suffer during the course of their lives.

"Tell me so much as you may of them, and I will try to help you to bear up against them."