The suit needs to be durable, so it can't be torn.

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People often carry heavy loads in vehicles so they need to be durable.

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But the euro has so far proved far more durable than the doomsters expected and it would be a mistake to write it off yet.

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Above all, the company is justifying that price with a daring glass design, which HP insists makes the laptop more durable, not less so.

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So the RM27-01 is very light and pretty durable.

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Although the federal government's support for basic research so far shows no sign of waning, academics wonder how durable that commitment will prove now that, post cold war, national security has become less of a reason to invest in science.

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The admission of the inadequacy of the testing will increase the pressure on Pirelli, who were tasked in 2011 -- when they took on the sole supplier role -- with designing a less durable tire in order to force more pit stops and so create more unpredictable racing.

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What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.

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Alas, the focus wasn't so much on beauty as on making a machine that shouts, "I am the most powerful, durable and efficient air conditioner in world history!"

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Think of it: It's not so much the lack of capitalist ethos that impoverishes the people of Peru or Madagascar, but the lack of durable capital that can be traded back and forth.

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