Sentence examples for designed to disable from inspiring English sources

In addition, China has built an advanced cyberprogram designed to disable a potential enemy's command-and-control capabilities, Mr. Harold said.

This paper is the first to model a special feature designed to disable certain lift buttons in order to ensure fair use of the lift service.

The malicious program, known as Stuxnet, is designed to disable both Iranian centrifuges used to enrich uranium and steam turbines at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, which is scheduled to begin operation next year, said the engineer, Ralph Langner, an industrial control systems specialist based in Hamburg, Germany.

Merck said on Tuesday that it would refocus its research and development unit on the most promising treatment areas, like its anti-PD-1 immunotherapy program for cancer, a drug designed to disable the molecular shields that protect tumors and unleash the body's own immune system to fight them.

Gleevec was designed to disable a defect in a protein called a tyrosine kinase that occurs in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), a blood cancer.

Now, says Schlievert, they can work more effectively to develop new diagnostic tests for detecting the M18 strain bacteria and vaccines designed to disable its toxins.

His insertion of unnecessary and unwieldy clauses about distinctiveness and impartiality, along with a new right for commercial channels to complain about having to compete with the BBC, is designed to disorientate and disable.

The air force runs one for anti-satellite warfare, designed to destroy or disable enemy birds.

Essential Therapeutics of Waltham, Mass., which until a merger last month was known as Microcide Pharmaceuticals, is trying to design drugs to disable tiny pumps that bacteria use to eject antibiotics.

Lawrence Goldstein and his colleagues at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), reasoned that if they could find a molecule that halts kinesin function, they could learn more about when and how they work--and possibly design drugs to disable specific kinesins.

Security experts like to tell tales of "back doors" built into weapon systems, designed to allow their makers to disable them remotely.