Sentence examples for to withstand the kind of from inspiring English sources
A result is the Delta Works, built to withstand the kind of storm that strikes once every 10,000 years.
A nitrate-film storage warehouse on Jane Street, Mr. Meyers explained, is built to withstand the kind of fire that destroyed the Thanhouser plant.
Typically, he said, projects in New Jersey are engineered to withstand the kind of storm that on average occurs only once every 75 years.
Like the front-of-house team, the wine list is both classy and approachable, with plenty of choice at the lower end to balance the vintages designed to withstand the kind of serious City Boy pounding that may now never happen.
Mr. Brown, who entered the academy in 1945 and graduated in 1949, was the sixth black man admitted in the 100-year history of the Annapolis military college but the first to withstand the kind of hazing that had forced the others to leave within a year, according to Navy historians.
There followed one of those pleasingly arcane and edifying discussions to which we are frequently party on the Guardian's reviews, to which opus147 contributed the thought that "the orchestration of Jeux just isn't subtle enough to withstand the kind of thorough cleaning the BP gave it".
As a consequence, their knees never had to withstand the kinds of repeated twists, sprints, loads and hard hits that young players now regularly absorb, he says.
On some album covers, you don't even see the piano; you just see her face, which is striking enough to withstand the kinds of closeup that the recording industry normally reserves for pop stars.
The slow start for the economy in 2012 — an annual rate of 2.2 percent in the first three months of the year — is evidence that the recovery is too weak to push joblessness much lower than its current 8.2 percent, and too fragile to withstand the kinds of budget cuts Congressional Republicans are proposing.
It's this very ability to better withstand the kind of economic pressures the United States had until recently been able to exert, either directly or through international financial institutions, which has led to recent violence in Santa Cruz and elsewhere in the wealthier white and mestizo-dominated eastern sectors of the country.
Because they were grounded in biologically evolved dispositions and culturally transmitted prejudices that, however strongly entrenched, could not withstand the kind of rational scrutiny to which they have been submitted in the past two centuries.
