Sentence examples for reduced foundation from inspiring English sources

The debate about whether foundations should exist in perpetuity or establish a date to sunset and spend all their money by then has grown in the last several years, especially in the wake of the stock market's collapse, which severely reduced foundation assets.

This could provide improvements, such as increased power-capture, reduced foundation loads and lower manufacturing and installation costs.

But as Judge Kluttz said, even a somewhat reduced foundation would have a great impact on a town of 25,000.

Theaters have closed, programs reduced, foundations shuttered, rehearsal spaces become retail spaces.

Hollow sections are often used for tall bridge columns to reduce their mass, reduce seismic inertia forces, and reduce foundation forces.

This would lead to unnecessary overconservatism in the design, as there is evidence that the free-field motion may be thoroughly filtered out by piles (generally reduced), especially in the case of soft soils, where piles are recurrently required to carry out the total load transmitted by the superstructure and/or to reduce foundation settlements.

That shrinkage, combined with carry over commitments from prior multi-year grants, is expected to reduce foundation gifts this year by as much as 70% versus 2008.

This practice reduces foundations' risks of failure, he writes - but may also lead to less significant achievement.

No one was hurt, but it reduced the foundation's library to rubble.

Mr Schramm has reduced the foundation's staff from over 200 to 88, and focused it on pioneering policies in entrepreneurship and education.Such radical change caused uproar in Kansas City, Missouri, where the foundation is based.

Use of PVDs reduced permanent foundation settlement and rotation by reducing the duration of large excess pore pressures, but amplified roof accelerations and flexural drift.