Sentence examples for designed to bear from inspiring English sources

New substances can even be designed to bear desired characteristics and then synthesized.

Let your body go limp, while reminding yourself that the shower curtain is not designed to bear your weight.

The scene in which she returns the offending postcard to Coleman cannot carry the larger emotional significance it is designed to bear.

Of the exodus, he writes: "Rattling and wheezing, coated with dust, the aging vehicles swayed under loads they were not designed to bear.

Movies are the bedmates of poetry, as Bowie knew, and to treat them as a sort of illustrated novel is to load them with a burden they were scarcely designed to bear.

It was designed to bear great tension from the heavy brass strings (normally 30 to 50), which were plucked by the fingernails to produce a ringing, bell-like sound.

A new saw from Italy is on order, designed to bore down into the rock after he has exhausted the cliffs.

The earliest steam engines suffered from the imprecision of early machine tools, and the large cast cylinders of the engines often were bored inaccurately by machines powered by waterwheels and originally designed to bore cannon.

'When used against mud-brick houses in Pakistan, a missile designed to bore through thick Soviet armor is going to have pretty catastrophic effects.'.

Weisman visits Nagoya Science Park, where Japan's oldest scientific firm has built RIBA II, a robotic white bear designed to carry elderly people around the house.

Only by loosening zoning to allow new combinations of home and work will we be able to bring innovative design to bear on the single-family house.