Sentence examples for drawdown that from inspiring English sources

The president's tried, he tried, but he also failed to secure a responsible and gradual drawdown that would have better secured our gains.

The wall facings were very permeable and thus prevented unbalanced hydrostatic and seepage forces from developing during drawdown that could increase reinforcement strip loads beyond drained condition values.

"If I thought there was a drawdown that was going to endanger our ability to deliver a foundation for stability that outlasts whatever presence we had — absolutely, I would," she said.

"It was a very sharp drawdown that should pave the way for a better recovery down the road," said Kathleen Stephansen, director of economic research for Credit Suisse First Boston.

The U.S. military said Friday that it has begun withdrawing from Syria, initiating a drawdown that has blindsided allies and is likely to spark a scramble for control of the areas that American troops will leave.

Instead, the Democratic senators are now discussing legislation that might set nonbinding goals for the completion of a drawdown that would shift most remaining American forces into support roles.

This account is used to record and track monthly working capital drawdowns that are requested by WCM and wired from Ithaca to WCM.

Sites that were seasonally disconnected from uplands had large annual water table drawdowns that dried out the riparian area unless the water table was sustained by the stream.

And so we slid in a thousand soldiers under Eisenhower, at the time of President Kennedy's death, maybe 15,000, 16,000, at the time Lyndon Johnson left office, over 500,000, and then the drawdowns that Henry described.

This approach closely approximated drawdowns that were numerically simulated with a complex three-dimensional, hypothetical model and reasonably estimated drawdowns from an aquifer test conducted in a complex hydrogeologic system.

Known drawdowns that were sampled directly from the MODFLOW model results could be replicated with analytical Theis-generated pumping signals alone (no environmental fluctuations) with RMS prediction errors within 0.0005 m (not shown because signals appear identical).