Sentence examples for to resist crushing from inspiring English sources

The foam must be hard enough to resist crushing pressure yet buoyant enough to counteract the vehicle's great weight.

Typically, submersibles fight the extremes with bright lights and cramped personnel spheres — the shape that can best resist crushing pressures.

The BBC's Kevin Connolly in Cairo says the court proceedings will be a trial of strength for the two dominant forces in Egyptian life - testing the army's ability to keep order on the streets and the Islamic movement's ability to continue to resist under crushing pressure.

In a science lab at Brentwood High School the other day, she talked about pulling young ribbed mussels from a salt marsh, exposing them in tanks to Asian crabs and demonstrating that chemicals emitted by the crabs made the mussels thicken their shells, the better to resist being crushed and eaten.

All fossils are preserved as depressions in the bases of beds, implying that the organism, although not mineralised, was firm enough to resist being crushed as sediment accumulated above it; as the soft parts of the organism decayed, the soft muds underneath would be squeezed up into the shell, preserving the shape of the organism.

How did you feel about the ex-Marine "Sully" and other Earthians "changing sides" and joining with the Na'vi to resist the Crusher invaders?

There is something inexorable about the Mafia's operations: ordinary people who try to resist are routinely crushed.

Despite all attempts to resist, Paul was crushed under Max's bodyweight.

Despite all attempts to resist, Paul was crushed under Max's body weight.

The air that's been pressing from the outside of the can this whole time suddenly has nothing on the other side to resist it, so it crushes the can inward.

Most important, will the new managers find a way to resist the forces that are slowly crushing Western newspapers?