Sentence examples for built to handle a from inspiring English sources

Because the levees in Grand Forks were built to handle a flood of 52 feet, a small miss in the forecast could prove catastrophic.

In a sweeping new study of the causes of the disaster in New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers acknowledged today that the levees it built in the city were an incomplete and inconsistent patchwork of protection, containing flaws in design and construction, and not built to handle a hurricane anywhere near the size of Katrina.

What's more, these models tend to be rather rigid, built to handle a single set of questions.

Amazon Go's technology is built to handle a certain type of shopping — i.e., shopping the same way, over and over again.

There's typically a lot of buffering and whatnot for live events, since more IP networks weren't built to handle a large number of people streaming the same piece of content.

For instance, Luther's wireless network simply was not built to handle a huge crowd of thousands of people all trying to connect to the same guest Wi-Fi service at the same time.

The campaign press operation is being built to handle all that will be thrown at the candidate.

So a tunnel built to handle 1,000 vehicles a day, and until the Pakistani boycott against NATO in November handling 2,000, now tries — and often fails — to let 10,000 vehicles through, alternating northbound and southbound truck traffic every other day.

Bradford's A&E was built to handle 110,000 attendances a year.

The tunnel, built to handle 1,000 vehicles a day, now tries -- and often fails -- to let 10,000 vehicles through, alternating northbound and southbound truck traffic every other day.

In San Francisco, for example, the warehouse was built to handle 8,000 orders a day, which would be more than 3percentt of the region's total grocery sales.