Sentence examples for because of concrete from inspiring English sources

Mr. Pataki is looking better and better to many Latinos, partly because of concrete steps he has taken to appeal to Hispanic constituencies -- like the financial aid he helped get for families of livery drivers who are injured or killed while on duty, a major issue for Mr. Mateo's group.

Melissa A Fabello, an editor of Everyday Feminism and a community educator at a Philadelphia domestic violence agency, says that sometimes people stay in abusive relationships because of concrete reasons like children or money, but "sometimes they're more abstract, including strong emotions like love, hope, guilt, and fear".

The Israeli counter-terrorism bureau barred its citizens from travelling to Red Sea resorts in the Sinai peninsula, and to a string of other Middle Eastern and north African countries, because of "concrete" indications of planned terror attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets.

Le Corbusier's brutalism took an early lead, not least because of concrete's cost advantage: it is cheap and abundant, the second most consumed material in the world, after water.

Increasing the modulus of elasticity represents the increase in the concrete strength because of concrete aging or underestimation of the modulus by the current ACI equation (ACI 2014).

Failure of the prestressed strengthened beams occurred because of concrete cover separations at one end of the carbon FRP (CFRP) plates.

The bomb also tilted the cathedral because, instead of concrete foundations, it was built on a subterranean base of bamboo, Sister Mary explained.

For a lot of people, this is the most difficult step because instead of concrete recommendations ("Do this, and this will follow"), it requires a more subtle use of their creative abilities and instincts.

Seeing the space early in the morning reminded Sila Sveta of "a morning forest," "because of the standing concrete pillars throwing long shadows.

But because of lack of concrete evidence, they couldn't put them in jail.

Because the foundations of concrete dams are typically keyed into bedrock, concrete dams usually do not experience great accelerations when shaken by earthquakes; for this reason, concrete dams have achieved an excellent safety record in terms of withstanding seismic forces.