Sentence examples for buffer against the storms from inspiring English sources

Decade after decade, new Staten Islanders built thousands of homes on wetlands that once had served as a natural buffer against the storms that blew in from the sea.

"The trees secure the ground and offer a buffer from the storms," said the Rev. José Andrés Tamayo, a Roman Catholic priest and leading Honduran environmental advocate.

The city also built an extensive seawall to act as a buffer against future storms.

She warned that intentional rerouting of the Mississippi River over the past century, coupled with rising sea levels due to climate change, had eroded Louisiana's natural buffer against massive storms.

Coral reefs alone support a wide array of fish species and other ocean life, act as a buffer against shoreline storms and waves and floods, and are increasingly providing clues to new medicines for a variety of human ailments, from cancer and arthritis to heart disease.

What makes this so scary is that the wetlands, especially the cypress forests, serve as a buffer against storms.

A combination of factors oil drilling, hurricanes, levees, dams–have destroyed the swamps and left the area with virtually no natural buffer against storms.

New Orleans now understands that proximity to open water is deadly and that land serves as a buffer against storms.

In Shishmaref, Alaska, she met people who were abandoning their tiny island home because, with less sea ice around it as a buffer against storms, their houses and land were being carried away.

That's a buffer against the downturn in defense spending".

They also help buffer against the inevitable criticisms that come at this stage (something that change agents underestimate).