Sentence examples for survive air from inspiring English sources

His answer to George Carlin's oft-quoted wisecrack "If black boxes survive air crashes, why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?" would simply be that it would cost too much money.

Microbial communities in stools do change significantly after 24 h of exposure to air, and these changes include a sharp decline in the relative abundance of Bacteroides strains [ 28], which can survive air but do not divide under aerobic conditions.

Seed quality traits (ability to germinate and survive air-dry storage) are acquired during the course of development and maturation (Hay and Smith, 2003; Probert et al., 2007).

Dawood survived air strikes before the siege, but this was the first time his house had been hit.

The Gothic church of Saint-Vulfran (15th 17th centuries) and the town hall with its 13th-century tower survived air bombardment during World War II, which destroyed the greater part of the town.

There have been cases where young children survived air crashes because they were restrained in safety seats and others in which children died when sitting in the lap of a parent who survived.

You can't survive an air burst by ducking under a dashboard.

Aid and human rights officials say they stranded population, estimated at being between 20,000 to 30,000 cannot survive on air drops alone for much longer.

Silicon, he was sure, would have to be abandoned; carbon was the new world, and his buckytubes were stable enough both to let electrons through, and to survive in air, water and high temperatures, without changing their identities.This field, the study and manipulation of materials at small scales, became known as nanotechnology.

Say we read about a mermaid who suffocates while riding on the back of a whale, because the whale is self-absorbed and stays at the surface for over an hour, forgetting that 1) there's a mermaid on his back and 2) mermaids can't survive in air for more than eight minutes.

The issue, says Griffiths, was "how do you give any life at all to an immensely long elevation with only one door", which looks onto a quayside awaiting development and currently populated only by some hardy black pines, chosen for their ability to survive salty air.