Sentence examples for build to withstand a from inspiring English sources

If constructing in a seismic zone that hasn't seen an earthquake above a magnitude of M6.5 in 100 years, do you build to withstand a magnitude of 7? Or put in extra the millions upfront to protect against a magnitude of 8 that may never come?

In a bunkerlike building built to withstand a direct hit by a category five tornado, 22,000 servers handle 150 million health care transactions a day, roughly one-third of the patient data for the entire U.S. Records of your blood pressure, cholesterol, lab test results, that gallbladder surgery last year and how much you paid for it may sit there right now.

In a bunkerlike building built to withstand a direct hit by a category five tornado, 22,000 servers handle 150 million health care transactions a day, roughly one-third of the patient data for the entire U.S. Records of your blood pressure, cholesterol, lab test results, that gallbladder surgery last year and how much you paid for it may sit there right now.

But in updates posted to 2 Gold's Web site, the company said that the building's floodgates, built to withstand a 12-foot storm surge, had been overwhelmed by the "historical level of flooding".

Dikes, buildings and bridges are often built to withstand a "hundred-year storm" — an event so epic that there is a 1 percent chance it will happen in a given year.

But it isn't really built to withstand a serious nomadic living situation.

So delicate, so abstract, this is music built to withstand a nuclear strike.

At Fukushima, the reactors were built to withstand a 7.9 magnitude quake.

A new water treatment plant and sewer system are to be built to withstand a Category 5 hurricane.

The Emergency Operations Centre is a bunker under the east wing of the White House which was built to withstand a nuclear attack.

A new waterfront power generating station has been built to withstand a four-foot seal level rise.