Sentence examples for devised to withstand from inspiring English sources

Were sterilization to prevail, expert guidance was needed, and Mr. Davenport's Eugenics Record Office supplied it in the form of a model sterilization law devised to withstand court challenge.

The bottle itself, however, felt as hard as a brick, thanks to a technique that a member of de Rothschild's team had devised to enable the thin plastic to withstand the pummelling of the waves.

TOKYO — A United Nations fact-finding mission on Tuesday tentatively supported new stress tests devised to determine whether Japan's nuclear plants can withstand another emergency, throwing its weight behind a government push to restart reactors idled in the wake of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant after an earthquake and tsunami in March.

Governors were devised to prevent this.

Interventions were devised to target these factors.

Methods were devised to address two questions.

The report indicates that Mr. Haynes was an early proponent of the idea of using the agency that trains soldiers to withstand torture to devise plans for the interrogation of prisoners held by the American military.

Common sense dictates upgrading many of these projects to withstand floods but also devising new homes elsewhere for some residents.

It was devised as a way to make sure that the banks have a big enough cushion of capital to withstand the kind of sudden shock that lead to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and that would have caused the demise of several other major financial institutions without the last minute injection of emergency aid by the federal government.

The scene involving the car crash was devised using an Aston Martin DB9 that was especially modified to look like Bond's Aston Martin DBS V12 and reinforced to withstand the impact.

It is looking at devising ways to verify how banks measure their risk-weighted assets (RWAs) – a key component in their capital ratios which gauge banks' abilities to withstand losses.