Sentence examples for without sustaining damage from inspiring English sources

For the St Mirren fans, of course, each minute that passed without sustaining damage would seem like a valuable gift.

Like so many sportsmen, the defender may have learned that no one hits 30 without sustaining damage in the collision.

Certain trees, including larches and giant sequoias, have incredibly thick, fire retardant bark and can be directly burned without sustaining damage to their vital tissues (though they will eventually succumb to intense fires).

Due to a layered construction, the sensor is very robust and can withstand normal forces multiple magnitudes higher than what could be achieved by a human without sustaining damage.

It can also absorb heavy blows without sustaining damage.

Wider rays in lianas allow the stems to experience torsion without sustaining damage to vessels and contribute to liana stem flexibility (Putz and Holbrook 1991).

Another limitation with this technique is that it does not measure strength, a property representing the ability of a material to carry stress without breaking or sustaining damage.

Walls without splices sustained damage at the base of the wall; walls with splices sustained damage at both the top of the splice and the base of the wall, with the critical region depending on the shear demand.

"Some of those nurses were without power, they sustained damage to their homes, but they showed up every day".

But silicon-based, solid-state components could sustain damage without transformers to convert AC to DC.

The most-striking feature of the present agreement is that Iran has escaped years of isolation and the threat of war without sustaining much damage.