Sentence examples for means to absorb from inspiring English sources

Instead, they hit un amorti, which literally means to absorb shock and is right on target for anyone who has watched a player defuse a huge passing shot with a winning drop volley.

In particular, the inability to fully manage the monetary policy at the national level has been generally associated with a greater need to implement structural reforms as a means to absorb macroeconomic shocks (Bean 1998).

Investors who work with regulatory relief specialists like Ovid Capital Advisors can enter into a partnership with the bank: the bank indirectly provides the investors with the strength of its underwriting and loan servicing, while the investors provide the means to absorb unexpected risk of loss.

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change allows a country that emits C above agreed-upon limits to purchase C offsets from an entity that uses biological means to absorb or reduce greenhouse emissions.

TV gave people a new means to absorb cultural stories, news, and information -- including broadcast TV movies, all in the comfort of our homes.

What does it mean to absorb another's voice?

Its fat, puffy grains were meant to absorb the curry in the second container.

All glass, back and front, held together by a band of metal with plastic corners that are meant to absorb the energy of a drop to the floor and help the screen not shatter.

Congress appropriated $14bn for the current fiscal year, (some of which was itself meant to absorb previous shortages) but without the $6bn increase, the programme will need to reduce the size of its grants.

The body is thin with a thickness of 6.1mm, light at 393g, and discrete with hard-wearing black plastic back, and nylon corners that are meant to absorb the energy and stop the screen shattering if the tablet is dropped.

Of course, the poem mocks its own earnestness, since frank hedonism is perhaps not the life lesson Oxford men in the aftermath of World War II were meant to absorb.