Sentence examples for exerts against from inspiring English sources

An arcade that supports a wall, a roof, or an entablature gains enough strength from lateral thrusts that each individual arch exerts against the next to carry tremendous weight loads and to stretch for great distances.

When researchers looked at the "top number" known as systolic blood pressure - the pressure blood exerts against artery walls when the heart beats - they found moving away from segregated neighborhoods mattered.

From this graph, the stiffness (S), which is defined as the resistance an elastic body exerts against deformation [ 28], was represented by the slope of the curve prior to the yield load.

The systolic number represents the pressure that blood exerts against the walls of an artery following a heart beat or contraction.

Systolic blood pressure refers to the force your blood exerts against the artery walls as your heart pumps.[6] This is the blood pressure created when your heart contracts.

The pressure produced by the motion of the ship is exerted against one face of a diaphragm; that produced by the pump is exerted against the other.

"The word Kosovo is being frequently used in pressures exerted against our country," he said.

The violence exerted against Joan, and her grim struggle with political opponents, now has an added resonance.

The amount of fluid inside these pipes — the volume — determines the pressure exerted against the walls of the pipes.

Windows will be tested to ensure that they are operable, meaning that no undue pressure is being exerted against the frames.

Students in 11th grade were asked to calculate how much force a frog would exert against a river bank while leaping off.