Sentence examples for resisted fire from inspiring English sources

Gas leaked out and ignited while firewalls that would have resisted fire on an oil platform failed to cope with the ensuing gas explosion.

We knew previously that Trump resisted firing Flynn even though Yates had told McGahn that Flynn lied to the White House and may have been compromised because of it.

Now, according to what Dowd is saying, Trump also resisted firing Flynn for weeks even though he was informed that Flynn had apparently made the same types to statements to the FBI.

Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner, said he resisted firing his current coach, Bill Belichick, even though the Patriots had a 5-11 record last season in Belichick's first season and started this season with a 1-3 record.

Fire-resistant drywall is thicker than standard drywall (1/2" and 5/8") and will resist fire for 3-4 hours.

The problem addressed in this paper is how to objectively asses the performance of protective garments designed to resist fire.

From next year hex flasks will be required by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency to resist fire for 30 minutes at 800C.

And the more we resist fire, the worse the impacts of fire will be on human society and on natural systems.

The findings have implications for the design of flat-slab structures to resist fire because ignoring LITS may result in non-conservative design predictions.

These defects can compromise the ability of compartmentation to resist fire and smoke spread between dwellings and also into any means of escape.

Flasks used by British Nuclear Fuels to transport dangerous radioactive material can resist fire for less than three minutes, newly released research reveals.