Sentence examples for less able to withstand from inspiring English sources

This combination leaves the population less able to withstand an emergency of this kind.

Cars, for example, are less able to withstand bumping into each other than ants are.

Many chemotherapy drugs work by damaging DNA, which cancer cells are less able to withstand than normal cells.

Furthermore, if the foundation is too shallow, it will deteriorate, and the structure will be less able to withstand shaking.

Many chicks still make it to adulthood but suffer seriously reduced body weights which leave them less able to withstand the vicissitudes of sea life.

They had regular lessons together, with Kok the shy one of the three, less able to withstand Woof's slightly bullying approach.

More capital (so, less debt) means banks are more able to withstand losses.

OSR tends to be preferred for younger patients with less comorbidity, since they are more able to withstand the operation and it is felt that OSR may reduce the chance of further interventions in the future.

And so does making society more resilient, both less likely to be attacked and better able to withstand attack if it comes.

There has been, however, less damage to twigs and branches than in earlier gales, not because the wind had less force but because the trees are now better able to withstand the assault.

This is achieved when the determined stress from the applied force(s) is less than the yield strength the material is known to be able to withstand.