Sentence examples for withstand potential from inspiring English sources

Increasing the banks' capital reserves would "improve the resilience of their balance sheets and their capacity to withstand potential adverse macroeconomic shock", the central bank added.

The stronger concrete helps developers meet big-city building codes, which now require higher strength to withstand potential terrorist attacks or disasters.

In June 2009, President Obama called for financial firms to hold more capital to increase their ability to withstand potential losses.

The tsunami walls either should have been built higher, or the generators should have been placed on higher ground to withstand potential flooding, he said.

Those poised to withstand potential worsening of the recession — with little or no new capital — include major banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, which already swallowed multibillion-dollar losses on toxic securities and cut dividends to shore up their financial position.

She can point out, for example, that financial institutions are in much better shape to withstand potential losses than was the case five or six years ago, and that she will not hesitate to use the Fed's authority to crack down on risky behavior.

If Mr. Bloomberg signed the bill — and if it withstood potential court challenges — he would not face much difficulty in running as an independent.

"WADA is confident that the process will withstand any potential legal and scientific challenge," the WADA spokesman Frédéric Donzé said.

BUT with that revival come questions from some financial market analysts about whether energy trading will be better able to withstand another potential meltdown.

The authority said it believed the new guidelines adhered to the court's ruling and would withstand any potential First Amendment challenge.

But the report also leveled unexpectedly sharp criticism at the F.D.I.C., which by July 2008 concluded that the bank needed $5 billion in capital to withstand future potential losses.