Sentence examples for at a bedrock from inspiring English sources

Seizing on a national anxiety over poor student performance, many governors are taking aim at a bedrock tradition of public schools: teacher tenure.

In this study, we did not consider nonlinear effects of soil behavior, and we only considered linear ground motions that could be expected at a bedrock level.

From the snapshots of both earthquakes, we determined that the excitation of the surface waves occurred effectively at the area with a bedrock depth of approximately 1 km (e.g., at mark A and mark D in Figure 10).

The pain of cutting back at the New York Times has taken on an international dimension as the paper struggles to save money everywhere, including at the International Herald Tribune (IHT), a bedrock source of information and comfort to Americans -- and to all English-speakers -- visiting or living abroad since its founding in 1887.

According to the seismic Italian code (NTC 2008; DPCM 2011), the site is characterized by the hazard curve in Fig. 4, where the PGA at the bedrock a g is plotted varying the return period T R. The PGA at the bedrock with a 475 years return period is equal to a g = 0.145 g.

One of the new sites was located at 45 m depth (in a borehole at bedrock level) and developed and implemented data communication and transmission systems in real time.

The sanctuaries would be linked by a passage providing access to a "burial space" at bedrock.

A new frequency-domain method is developed for evaluating the earthquake input energy to a structure pile system or a super-structure alone subjected to a horizontal ground motion at an outcropping engineering bedrock surface.

Museum officials say that putting the remains at bedrock fulfills a promise made in 2004 to organizations representing the families.

A "sacred" space at bedrock would hold unidentified remains; this space would be for victims' familes alone.

Evelyn Erskine, a spokeswoman for Mr. Bloomberg, who is the chairman of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, said Sunday that the basic decision to put the unidentified remains at "bedrock" at the World Trade Center site had been made more than seven years ago, in consultation with a coalition of 9/11 family groups.