Sentence examples for been designed to survive from inspiring English sources

But luck played a big part: the device had not been designed to survive breakup or impact.

The Shinano had been designed to survive perhaps 20 torpedo hits but had been rendered vulnerable by inadequate and incomplete construction.

Atomic plants at Onagawa, Shika and Kashiwazaki-Kariwa were all struck by earthquakes that triggered tremors stronger than those to which the reactor had been designed to survive.

Wikipedia tells us that "while very short suborbital scramjet test flights have been performed, no flown scramjet has ever been designed to survive a flight test".

The MPs have been designed to survive a reversed DC or mains AC to any pin of the Ethernet port, the FXS port, the DC socket, or the antenna socket.

The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.

They are designed to survive winds of up to 110 miles an hour.

Catholics believe that their church is designed to survive the lapses of its leaders.

If an animal that is designed to survive here can't make it, we are in trouble.

Justice Kennedy declared: "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times".

The Titanic was designed to survive the flooding of three and possibly four compartments, depending on which ones filled up.