Sentence examples for bedrock supporting from inspiring English sources

Piles had to be driven along the route of the transfer, so that the weight of the Empire would be carried by the bedrock supporting Manhattan's skyscrapers, rather than the loose dirt filling the old holes.

Consider a rigid cantilever retaining wall with bilinear backface constructed on a rigid bedrock supporting a dry, horizontal and cohesionless backfill as shown in Fig. 2.

Since Greenland's ice cap is more than 2,000 metres thick on average, and the Antarctic bedrock supports 61% of the planet's fresh water, this means that scientists can make more accurate assessments of annual melting.

Microbiological investigations in the very ancient strata of the Antarctic ice cover, nearest to the bedrock, support the effectiveness of using a combination of different methods to search for signs of life in ancient icy formations, which might play a role in the long-term preservation and transportation of microbial life throughout the Universe.

To shake that kind of bedrock support you need repeated and consistent problems".

Though his Alawite sect, about 12percentt of the population, provides bedrock support, most Alawites are secular.

Rahman's bedrock support was undoubtedly among his fellow Bangladeshi Londoners, but others backed and voted for him too.

His education reforms could turn mainstream Democrats against the teachers' unions (which make up much of the party's bedrock support).

"The skyscrapers needed bedrock support, and the technology to put pilings down for support in other areas wasn't developed yet.

I bet all the business interests voting for him now (sensibly spotting rich pickings in the public sector) won't provide the level of support he needs at the election after this, because Labour's bedrock support will evaporate.

That bedrock support, he admits, was mindblowing to the Las Vegas foursome, that was formed after Flowers responded to Iowan transplant Keuning's "musicians wanted" ad in a local newspaper.