Sentence examples for to be impermeable from inspiring English sources

The Vatican used to be impermeable to horrific stories of child sexual abuse by priests – and complicit in attempts to whitewash the perpetrators' reputations.

It is a very thin membrane composed of fibrous tissue covered on its outer surface by a sheet of flat cells thought to be impermeable to fluid.

The exterior needs to be impermeable; all the building materials need to remain dry during the construction process; and condensation should not form inside the walls.

It is composed of fibrous tissue and, like the pia mater, is covered by flat cells also thought to be impermeable to fluid.

His wife, Raisa, was taken to an outdoor folk museum behind what was meant to be impermeable security, but there was such a welter of children up trees, people holding out daffodils, boys balancing on walls, lambs bleating, fiddles playing, buses reversing the wrong way and general happy mayhem that security became extremely flexible.

The rock mass was assumed to be impermeable with 1 m radius around the injection curtain.

In order for the process to produce ATP, the inner membrane must be impermeable to hydrogen ions (H+).

But sport can never be impermeable to dysfunction and dissonance in broader society.

Anticorrosion coatings must be impermeable to protect steel structures in marine environments.

As well as ensuring biocompatibility and biostability, the device must also be impermeable to moisture and water vapor.

Therefore, the NPC should be impermeable to small ions in a physiological environment.