Sentence examples for maintained to resist from inspiring English sources

In general, "fire-resistance rating" is defined as the period of time in which the integrity of a member subjected to fire is maintained to resist applied loads (König 2005; Kodur and Dwaikat 2007).

In weight-bearing bones, a mechanically-driven homeostatic feedback mechanism is used to achieve a 'target strain' level and ensures that bone strength is maintained to resist fracture [1], [2].

Before we get carried away with the idea that guns are the ultimate guarantor of our civil liberties, however, we should consider what maintaining the capability to resist the decisions of a democratically accountable government really means.

Moreover, the United States must maintain its military capacity to resist any resort to force.

It is desirable to reduce most weight of CNC machine and maintain good enough stress to resist external loads in the process of researches.

These results of this paper were like some previous research which described a significant increase in plasma glucose concentration of WSSV infected shrimp; they suggested that shrimp infected with virus may need to use glucose as an energy source to maintain of immune response to resist this rapidly replicating virus (Yoganandhan 2003; Galvan-Alvarez et al. 2012).

Burnett unstintingly dramatizes the horrific, mutilating violence of Southern slave owners, the dependence of American institutions and wealth on the practice and maintenance of slavery, and the heroic efforts to resist it, maintain cultural continuity, and preserve intimate and political history.

Chondrocytes, the cells that synthesize and maintain cartilage, were analyzed for their ability to resist potentially damaging effects by maintaining their viability and functionality.

Strengthening by ductile materials, in order to maintain ductile behavior of masonry to resist shear forces would provide reduction in the crack development and crack width providing delay in failure.

Based on the integrated index, this paper proposed an approach for designing a more stable chemical process that can maintain stable within larger region to resist the disturbance and has shorter time to approach to the original stable steady state operation point when disturbance is encountered.

Under conditions in which differentiation would be induced in NSCs, GSCs showed an intrinsic potential to maintain their undifferentiated state or to resist differentiation and even tended to retro-differentiate under certain circumstances.