Sentence examples for direct downward from inspiring English sources

With its forces in equilibrium, the truss exerts only a direct downward pressure on the walls, so that they need not be thickened or buttressed.

The central bank also could expand its extensive portfolio of Treasury securities and mortgage bonds, putting direct downward pressure on long-term rates, but Fed officials are reluctant to do so in the face of considerable political opposition and technical concerns that the purchases would absorb too much of the available stock of securities, crowding out private investors.

In places where fertilizers are applied to the land surface, there is an increased potential for groundwater contamination due to the direct downward infiltration of nitrate to the aquifer system.

In its annual report in 1961, the Fed said the goal of the policy was: "To encourage bank credit and monetary expansion while avoiding direct downward pressure on short-term interest rates, thereby moderating pressures on the US balance of payments".

Curves beyond 2500km show direct downward trend without much fluctuation.

They cannot be sharpened and they saw rather than slice, unless you apply direct downward pressure (like when cutting a block of hard cheese) which is dangerous.

On the other hand, the flow estimated from the radar maps recorded during the specific short time period shown in Figure 6A is predominantly directed downward, in South direction, opposite to the indications of the MetOffice pressure map and to the average flow estimated processing a time period covering the majority of the event (Figure 6C).

In a unanimous vote, the five-member town board adopted an ordinance that will require that outdoor lighting fixtures be shielded or fitted with opaque tops and sides so illumination is directed downward but blocked from shining up or outward in all directions.

Neuropteran adults have hypognathous (directed downward) mouthparts and unique piercing sucking larval jaws composed of the mandibles (directed downward) plus maxillae.

Photophores occur in bands along the lower parts of the sides and are directed downward.

This apical cell is usually four-sided (tetrahedral), with three faces directed downward, and the fourth capping the apex.