Sentence examples for impervious in from inspiring English sources

Hiawatha faces Megissogwon, manito (spirit) of wealth, who is impervious in his shirt of wampum, the hard shell beads once used as currency.

But then his Fast & Furious franchise, into its fifth instalment last year, weirdly impervious in its urban-petrolhead elysium, all peoples equally inaudible beneath the roar of a fat exhaust pipe, hints that the idea of a pan-ethnic star might still have a future.

Activation of Moocci.Foxf reporter construct was impervious in C. intestinalis TVCs even upon overexpression of Ets.b full-length or VP16 fusions from either C. intestinalis or M. occidentalis.

The bounding boundaries are either no-flow (impervious) or in-flow (constant head) so that aquifers with six possible boundary configurations are formed.

Impervious surface, in turn, in turn prevents rainwater and other precipitation from soaking into the ground and, instead, causes it to run off, picking up volume and pollutants along the way to receiving waters.

NLCD estimates in developed land also significantly underestimated impervious cover in 14 mapping zones, overestimated impervious cover in three zones, and had an overall impervious cover underestimation of 5.2% (SE = 4.8%) (Tables  1, 2).

The increase in the amount of impervious surface in urban areas produces more stormwater runoff, that is carried to the receiving bodies of water.

It did not significantly underestimate impervious cover in any mapping zones; overall impervious cover in other lands was underestimated by 1.3% (SE = 1.4%) (Tables  1, 2).

Given the percentage of impervious pavement in cities, it is an important element to consider in heat island mitigation (U.S. EPA 2011).

The high fraction of impervious surfaces in the watershed makes it difficult to improve water quality in the creek.

We are in effect asking that Prime Minister Ehud Barak cave in to the very same arguments that we considered ourselves impervious to in 1981.