Sentence examples for systems designed to prevent from inspiring English sources

The I.I.H.S. ratings are significant because they represent an effort to go beyond typical crash test standards to evaluate systems designed to prevent crashes.

It's now a comedy classic, but it was adapted from a book called Red Alert by an RAF officer named Peter George – an entirely serious indictment of the supposedly failsafe systems designed to prevent nuclear war.

Aviation industry sources said it was "very difficult" for a Boeing 777 to lose all power, as the model has systems designed to prevent the plane's electronics and engines shutting down.

TOKYO — Scrambling to corral a widening crisis, engineers linked a power cable to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station early Saturday as they struggled to restart systems designed to prevent overheating and keep radiation from escaping.

Executives of the three main companies involved in the spill — BP, Transocean and Halliburton — took turns pointing the finger at others for the failures of the systems designed to prevent a major blowout, even as they cautioned that the cause of the explosion was not yet known.

In a January 2010 letter, he urged the chief of the State Water Resources Control Board to reconsider a proposal that would curtail the ability of vineyards to use river water to feed extensive sprinkler systems designed to prevent frost from damaging grape vines, a practice some blame for recent area fish kills.

It is understood that investigators will look at why the suppression system, designed to prevent engine fires, apparently failed.

To keep licences, they will have to comply with a use-it-or-lose-it system designed to prevent mineral-rights hoarding.

Since the 1940s house-building in Britain has been regulated by a system designed to prevent urban sprawl, something it has achieved spectacularly well.

Toyota said on Friday that it might expand the number of models that will receive a braking override system designed to prevent sudden acceleration, a problem that led the company to recall millions of cars.

In his speeches he promises to abolish the Alternative Minimum Tax (a secondary system designed to prevent wealthy people avoiding tax, which now hits millions of taxpayers), though the campaign's fine print suggests patching rather than eliminating it.