Sentence examples for small to prevent the from inspiring English sources

Wind can desiccate leaves; full winter sun heats the bark, which can split from large day-night temperature changes; and containers are often too small to prevent the soil from freezing and damaging the roots or killing the plant.

The contribution of membrane action of the beams' reinforcement was too small to prevent the structure collapse.

When the chamber pressure is higher, the compensator factor should be set small to prevent the controller from generating a larger overshoot.

The variable range covered must sufficiently encompass the PDF in all dimensions, and the separation of grid points must be sufficiently small to prevent the entire PDF from falling between any two neighbours.

The Mets-Yankees Subway Series concluded with a 13.1 Nielsen rating with a 21 share on Thursday night, the best performance of the five-game series, but too small to prevent it from becoming the lowest-rated World Series ever.

The conceptual charge, termed a 'test charge', must be vanishingly small to prevent its own electric field disturbing the main field and must also be stationary to prevent the effect of magnetic fields.

Democrats say they will also remind voters that whatever job gains come in the next year, they are likely to be too small to prevent Mr. Bush from being the first president since Herbert Hoover to oversee a decline in employment.

Here was my small window to prevent the disease from taking hold.

Mr. Gennaro secured $35,000 in city money to buy 50 new trash baskets, most of which will have small openings to prevent the deposit of bulk items.

The net is heavy steel cable with a mesh small enough to prevent the passage of torpedoes & mines as well as submarines.

The reservation of small tracts to prevent the extermination of rare plants is no novelty; in Switzerland certain plants, one being the edelweiss, have been protected in this way for a long time.