It was completed last year, built to withstand crushing ice floes, and is expected to begin pumping oil next year, though its development has been hampered by complications and delays.
The library, completed in 1967, was built to withstand earthquakes of magnitude 8.0, officials say.
Similarly, in our experiments we found it has equal capacity to withstand complete submergence of 2 weeks with similar performance to Sub1A introgressed rice (BRRI 52) (data not shown).
The complete system was designed to withstand warheads of up to 700 pound of TNT.
By possessing the abilities to withstand complete desiccation, severe cold, microgravity, vacuum, and high levels of ionizing and UV radiations, anhydrobiotic tardigrades fulfill the most important criteria for tolerating exposure to natural space conditions including open space [ 2].
When the bunker was completed in 1966, it was designed to withstand a 31-megaton Soviet nuclear strike.
The HurriQuake nail is designed to withstand nature's tantrums.
It will take courage amongst Republicans which has been in very short supply this past year to withstand the complete Nazification of the Republican party.
A preliminary test campaign has been successfully completed, demonstrating that UHTC plasma sprayed coatings are able to withstand high temperature oxidising conditions.
Halophytes are equipped with well-defined adaptive mechanisms that enable them not only to withstand periodical high salinity, but also to complete their entire lifecycles at high salinities (Flowers et al. 2010).
