Sentence examples for built to survive from inspiring English sources
We are built to survive and our survival responses seem to be overactive for many of us these days, children and adults alike.
Suddenly, the team built to survive was back.
Less than a third were built to survive a hurricane.
More than any other team, they're built to survive an injury.
The problem wasn't structural: the dam had been built to survive an aerial bombardment.
(This being Los Angeles, however, the ark was built to survive an earthquake).
The palace was built to last: It has survived earthquakes and fires since it was first built between 1465 and 1478 for the Ottoman Empire's Sultan Mehmed II.
At 6 feet 5 inches and 230 pounds, Jurevicius has the build to survive the hits that go along with being a possession receiver.
His parents and his community built him to survive.
The first job he landed as a substance abuse counselor working with ex-offenders quickly brought him the realization that the men and women he counseled struggled to fit within a free society because of the defense mechanisms that they had built up to survive the prison experience.
He concludes that "the American public concentrates upon the stock markets, and it is as easy to buy shares, few or many on margin, as it is to buy a pound of tea," but also, more hopefully and presciently, that "the American speculative machine…is not built to prevent crises, but to survive them".
