Basements provide good protection if equipped with a suitable door and a concrete roof, but basements of pier-beam houses would leave their occupants exposed and vulnerable if the structure above them were blown away, said Ernst Kiesling, a former professor of civil engineering at Texas Tech.
We believe that every man has the potential to do great things, if he is equipped with the right tools and knowledge.
What if everyone was equipped with the same support network and experiences I had been granted to continually discover, learn, and create new things?
Does a product such as a hi-fi or a television qualify if it is equipped with an Internet browser to download songs and videos?
The quality of that dialogue will be improved, first, if the Bank supplies the committee with the technical assumptions and forecasts on which its actions are based and, second, if the committee is equipped with a staff qualified to assess the submissions.
In the past, we may have considered a projector-equipped camcorder if the price was right, but with dim output (typically less than 20 lumens) and content options limited to footage you've shot, the available functionality often didn't justify a premium of several hundred dollars.
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However, it said that if insects were to be equipped with control mechanisms and other add-on kit, the equipment would require a power source.
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That's a pretty strong foundation to build from especially if your home is already equipped with ZigBee devices like automated light switches, window controllers, and locks.
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He also said the site would be almost pointless if it does not come equipped with a powerful search engine that could scour federal Web sites with much more detail and power than current search engines.
If a tiny demon, equipped with a radio transmitter, could peer at each nucleus individually, he could choose to flip it only if it were already down, thereby causing it to spit out some radio energy.
If you aren't equipped for the hassle of buying locally traded shares (this can be done at a big brokerage firm), consider the Dreyfus Premier Greater China Fund or the Fidelity China Focus Fund, which have stakes in many of these companies.
They would have been better equipped to react if Vladisa had told them that he had met the witch Baba Roga and, in that same instant, her skull-and-bones hut on its one giant chicken leg had come tearing down the hillside after him.
If Angola commits its relatively well-equipped air force to Congo, it could close the air-bridge the rebels are using to ferry troops from the east to their western front.
"In order to improve the draft, the vent is preheated by means of electric resistance and it's equipped with a ventilator for use if necessary, " the Vatican said in a statement.
If the driver of a General Motors car equipped with its OnStar system locks his key in the car, for example, an emergency centre can transmit a digital signal to unlock the doors.
Researchers at the University of North Dakota, working with NASA and others, recently flew a Cirrus SR22 equipped with special software to see if it could sense and avoid conflicts with a nearby Cessna 172.
"It is not clear if the Pakistani military is trained and even equipped to go into a situation like that, " she said, adding that even the United States military "would have to think twice" about such an offensive.
With such a link, doctors in the U.S. can monitor the condition of a patient in real time and offer advice just as if that patient was in a telemetry-equipped bed in an intensive care unit across the hall.
Even if the company sells ten of these well-equipped models it will have gotten consumers to think of its brand within a whole new framework.
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The company said that if the funding bid was successful the new centre, equipped with the latest chemistry, biochemistry and testing resources, would be operational by 2012.
Not all bitcoin transactions require a standard computer and if the mobile payment prognosticators are correct, the mobile phone equipped with applications like Bitcoin Android could end up originating the majority of bitcoin transactions.
Not only are our children not able to keep up with the better-equipped competition coming from India and China, but if things don't change very soon, all these tens of millions of our sons and daughters will grow up to be adults unable to even function in our economy, let alone compete.
The company thought if airlines saw the benefits in action, they would get planes equipped faster.
If you can equip them with that, they'll be equipped for whatever they face.
The benefit may be that if children come along down the line, they would be well-equipped to ward off disease.
In fact, a recent study by the Flight Safety Foundation found that 38% of all accidents in modern turbine-powered, glass-cockpit-equipped aircraft were likely or highly likely to have been prevented if the pilot had a HUD.
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The troops that would be surged were those that were currently serving in organized, equipped, and trained outfits that are prepared to go off, if so directed.
If there are business needs that banks like B of A are ill-equipped to handle internally, it makes more sense for them to stick to their knitting.
But if a firm can tell them what its employees care about, economists are well equipped to craft a compensation system that encourages the right kinds of behaviour.
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