Sentence examples for serves to resist from inspiring English sources

When a flexible pipe is subjected to high external hydraulic pressure, the innermost carcass layer serves to resist buckling and collapse.

Whether or not mitotic bookmarking serves to resist cellular reprogramming or stochastic changes in gene expression that might lead to lineage infidelity is amenable to investigation.

They also serve to resist undue urban influences and intrusions.

Recapitulation of this architectural feature should serve to resist the constant shear force from the movement of the joint and prevent the delamination of tissue-engineered cartilage.

Rowan Williams argued recently that the "jubilee" laws of ancient Israel serve to resist permanent dependency; but they can only do this by restricting the size of the gap between the rich and the poor.

We would be well served, however, to resist the urge to rely on factually sparse rhetoric in formulating our future infrastructure policy.

This declaration encourages physicians to honor their commitment to serve humanity and to resist any pressure to act contrary to the ethical principles governing their conduct.

Third, we observed that when belief in the evidence was limited, even noteworthy strengths in other areas only served to reinforce the determination to resist any change to embrace the EBP.

But the endorsement by a French minister of a takeover proposal that had not even been announced and that one French company appeared to want to resist serves as a reminder that in many ways there is not yet a real European financial market.

It serves as a blockage to resist higher magnitude of stresses prior to plastic deformation (Montoya and Pech 2007).

The temptation is to endlessly quote Eno's dialogue ("Ice cream is a dish best served cold" is hard to resist).