Sentence examples for would be impervious from inspiring English sources

They expected that the bacteria would be impervious.

Many casino firms, including Harrah's Entertainment and Station Casinos, gorged on debt to finance expansion in the belief that Las Vegas would be impervious to a downturn.

And if the Taliban succeeds in retaking Afghanistan's cities, al-Qaida could find there a perfect sanctuary, where it would be impervious to counter-terrorism operations.

Because it's a quasi-governmental institution serving a broad public purpose, many people have assumed that Freddie Mac -- formerly the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation -- would be impervious to the scandals shaking corporate America.

Much of the conference was focussed on surveillance and civil liberties in the digital age; there were talks on how to create an e-mail system that would be impervious to the N.S.A., how to alter your appearance to thwart the surveillance state, and how to hold the government accountable by making use of Freedom of Information requests.

The Ghost Dance began as a redemptive movement in the Great Basin culture area but became quite millenarian as it spread to the Plains, where believers danced in the hopes that the settlers would disappear, that the buffalo would return, and that their people would be impervious to attack.

Of course, even a new $1 trillion surplus -- if the number turns out to be that high -- would not be impervious to Congressional spending plans.

So goannas would appear to be impervious to most threats.

If I glowered at her she would be quite impervious – but a sympathetic look is a kind of agony for Hopkins, making her literally squirm, and I think this has distorted her entire perspective on other people's problems.

Instead of building a second floor, said Ananth Madhavan, managing director of ITG, which operates a computerized trading system that competes with the Big Board, the stock exchange should follow the lead of foreign competitors and move trading to an electronic network that would be essentially impervious to physical attack.

This large snake, resistant to the very potent venoms of its prey, would appear then to be impervious.