Sentence examples for damped from inspiring English sources

This probably damped the housing market last year, and is likely to continue to do so for a few years yet.

Moreover, although floating sea ice damped the swell, reducing its impact on the shelf considerably, such floating ice had no significant effect on infragravity waves even during the winter, when it was at its thickest.The researchers suggest infragravity waves cause vibrations in shelves.

But it was hurriedly damped down by ministers when the Welsh voted for an assembly by the narrowest of margins.

They have won credibility, anchoring inflation expectations so that movements in actual inflation are damped.

BRITISH sheep have achieved what British troops, even in the days of empire, never could: they have damped down Irish celebrations of St Patrick's day.

President Raúl Castro damped down speculation that he would abolish restrictions on foreign travel by Cubans.At least 38 Haitian migrants died when their overcrowded boat sank off the Cuban coast.

Local action may be effective in a few cases (restrictions on the use of antibiotics in Iceland in the mid-1990s seem to have damped down an outbreak of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus in that country), but the growth of air travel suggests that future outbreaks are less likely to be localised enough to be treated in this way.

The mission has by no means been accomplished.Iraq is far less dangerous than it was three years ago, when the Americans damped down a civil war with their last-gasp military surge.

The automobile shock absorber is an example of a critically damped device.

Wavelengths that are shorter are damped by horizontal mixing.

In most cases, nutation is quickly damped by friction in the bearings, leaving uniform precession.