There have been several incidents of Airbus A330's degrading to alternate law and the crews successfully riding through the procedures and ECAMS. In 2009 alone a Northwest 330 and 2 Jetstar A330's had unreliable airspeed incidents in severe weather in the Asia region that degraded to alternate law. Crews in each case got through the 5 minutes or so of uncertainties without major pitch changes. And a couple of Qantas 330's suffered ADIRU faults causing uncontrolled pitching, resolved by experienced and trained crew. If you pull full up in most aircraft (canards excepted?) you will stall, Airbus being the exception when in Normal law.