"resist" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The soil should crumble easily during digging and firm enough to resist collapse.
- "The engineer wants to design to resist collapse," said Dr. Mlakar, the team leader.
- Although they resisted collapse immediately after the planes' first impact, the hundreds of steel columns spaced around the outer facing of each tower eventually failed.
- However, Chandrasekhar (1931) showed that the degeneracy pressure is inadequate to resist collapse if the core mass exceeds 1.4,.
- During collapse, an electron-degenerate gas forms in the core, providing sufficient degeneracy pressure as it is compressed to resist further collapse.
- Such pits resist collapse, but do not have much storage capacity because their interior volume is mostly filled by stone.
- When the ground shakes, the columns are meant to stand firm and resist collapse.
- This skeletal structure is strong enough to resist gravitational collapse.
- When the earthquake hit on the morning of December 7, 1988, the houses and apartments least able to resist collapse were those built during the Brezhnev years.
- Most fundamentally, however, analysts here say, the Tokyo market resists collapse because a few small groups can exercise enormous influence over the direction of the market.
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