But in a letter dated Jan . 22 , 2007Mr. Tierney said he and his staff had decided that the building's "structural instability" and changes to its original form through alterations precluded it from consideration as a historic landmark.
The source of this instability is building-up of compressive circumferential strain in the wall with increasing displacement; a competition between stretching and van der Waal's energy terms of the system.
A continued hard line will threaten to institutionalise communal instability rather than building the more consensual politics that King Hamad has promised his diverse population.
Dynamic loads on civil structures due to earthquakes can cause excessive vibrations that can lead to serious structural instability resulting in building damage and/or collapse.
What we desperately need is a campaign of nation-building to counteract the growing instability and deterioration in the United States.
In Kharkiv, it was feared (or hoped) that an assassination attempt on the mayor on April 28th would lead to instability, seizing of buildings and then a rapid and progressive insurrection throughout the province.
"Once you're beyond the edge of the structure, you are at risk yourself," Mr. Eisner said in a telephone interview on Wednesday, pointing to the instability of partly collapsed buildings.
After decades of instability and corruption, we are building a stable popular democracy based on the rule of law.
The rotational ground motion can lead to significant increasing of structural response, instability and unusual damages of buildings.
