Sentence examples for buffer the shock from inspiring English sources

But no real competition emerged, and when power supplies got tight, the utilities had less generating capacity of their own to buffer the shock.

And having its own currency, the zloty, has helped buffer the shock waves emanating from the euro zone.

Southern California's Metropolitan Water District, which serves 17m people, will lose a quarter of its total supply, but its reservoirs have two years' supply to buffer the shock.

The first task of the Rapid Response Unit (actually, one spiky-haired twenty-six-year-old named Mario Maldonado) was to buffer the shock of the eight hundred workers who, only weeks before, had been sure that their jobs were safe.

The flexible exchange rate also helps buffer the shock resulting from oil price declines.

It's not as though we can protect ourselves or our children entirely from this kind of loss, but there are things we can do to help them cope and to buffer the shock within our family.

Wayne Nish, the chef and owner of March, and his architect, John Kinnear, have buffered the shock of the new by laying down the Persian carpets from the old March and hanging the French tapestry that once was in the rear dining room.

A more flexible exchange rate would also help to buffer the economy against shocks.

Capitalizing on chaperone's ability to buffer the effects of heat shock, for example, plants could be made more resistant to dehydration stress.

It has been suggested that genotypes of tetraploids are buffered against the shock of absorbing foreign genomes, and that extensive introgression often takes place at the tetraploid level between species that are isolated from each other at the diploid level [ 75, 76].

On his way back to his office from the cafeteria, Dr. Lee used his right cheek again, this time to shift the wheelchair into a mode that buffers the shock when he uses his head to steer it on a bumpy road.