Sentence examples for on pillar from inspiring English sources

A lot might rest on pillar 2 of the new accord ie, on whether supervisors allow banks to lose a bit of padding during recessions.

Inflated expectations Reprints Related items Bothersome BaselApr 15th 2004To make matters less precise still, during negotiations with bank associations, regulators have been placing less weight on "pillar 1" and more on "pillar 2 Basel-speakk for supervisors' discretion—in order to overcome anomalies produced by the formulas in pillar 1.

Thus far, most of the work on Basel 2 has focused on "pillar 1", the complicated formulas used to assign risk weightings to a bank's various assets, from credit-card debts to government bonds.

Boulder is named for the volcanic rocks that were swept off the Aquarius Plateau over the ages and now perch like massive black marbles in meadows and on the desert floor or roosted on pillar formations.

The effect of width/height ratio on pillar capacity is also apparent.

Attention should be placed on pillar designs as increasing support density may prove to be ineffective.

The garden of one villa in Pompeii, Italy, shows Diana on one pillar, Actaeon on the next.

Hypostyle hall, in architecture, interior space whose roof rests on pillars or columns.

All those long-term visions are based on pillars for which co-operation is vital.

In the church of Saints Marcellinus and Peter at Seligenstadt (830 840) only the three-aisle nave on pillars is original.

The human body is to some extent like a walking tower that moves on pillars, represented by the legs.