Sentence examples for withstand limited from inspiring English sources

And even if an attack of this scale and duration was carried out, Dempsey added, there was a risk "that the regime could withstand limited strikes by dispersing its assets.

On the same day, Iceland submitted a proposal asking for a review of the central North Atlantic fin whale; Iceland believes this population has recovered sufficiently to withstand limited hunting.

Characters can withstand limited damage but will die after sustained injury.

Elasticity of surface cuticle assists recovery movements in roundworms and arthropods, but the stresses and strains that cuticle can withstand are limited.

The ability of an animal's leg to withstand those forces limits its top speed.

The mooring system must be able to withstand the ultimate limit state during storm conditions as well as the fatigue limit state due to the highly cyclic wave induced motions.

Aerospace engineer Debbie Senesky is designing next-generation electronic devices that can withstand the outer limits of of outer space.

Depending on the procedure used to bond the upper and the lower part of the microfluidic chip (adhesion forces or high temperature bonding) chips inserted in the unit could withstand upper pressure limits of 130 and 150 bar, respectively without leakage or disintegration.

This Tf-R polymorphism which allows selecting for high affinity Tf-Rs together with the rapid recycling of Tf-R and gene-specific activation events enables trypanosomes to efficiently compete for limiting substrate and withstand iron deprivation until a new set of Tf-R is expressed [ 55, 60, 61].

Some investors, like underfunded pension funds, have limited ability to withstand another market shock.

Our planet is a relatively fragile ecosystem with finite amounts of what's needed for life and a limited ability to withstand environmental degradation.