Sentence examples for moderate slump [ from inspiring English sources

What looked then like a moderate slump in stock prices in the newspaper industry has turned into something worse, with Tribune suffering more than most, and the credit markets the company will rely on to shoulder its debt having gone from easy to tight.

Two types of concrete specimens are prepared – one with moderate slump (80 mm) named as Conventional Concrete (CC) and other with high slump (675 mm) referred as Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) and are monitored with carefully selected ultrasonic signal patterns.

This paper presents mixture proportions and measured properties for a series of six high-volume fly ash (HVFA) concretes, five containing a ternary component of a fine limestone powder, with cement replacement levels of 40% or 60% by volume, targeting moderate slump (150 mm) applications.

In the early 1990s, Willis's career suffered a moderate slump starring in flops such as The Bonfire of the Vanities, Striking Distance, and a film he co-wrote titled Hudson Hawk, among others.

However, to achieve moderate slumps at the requisite lower water-to-cementitious material ratios, high dosages of high-range water-reducing admixtures (HWRA) will likely be required, which can negatively impact early-age properties (e.g., setting time and 1 d strengths).

Those cuts certainly helped moderate the slump; but at this point, with the overnight interest rate down to 1.25percentthethe Fed has almost run out of room to cut.

Iyad Allawi, a secular Shia who won the most seats last time (a shade ahead of Mr Maliki) mainly with the backing of moderate Sunnis, slumped to 21, while Osama al-Nujaifi, parliament's Speaker, now generally considered Iraq's leading Sunni within the political system, got 28.