Sentence examples for reducing the strength from inspiring English sources

(2) Internal pore-fluid pressure reduces the effective stress acting on the sample, thus reducing the strength and ductility.

Last Thursday Obama promised strikes would fall further as Nato troops leave Afghanistan and because of the success of US policy in reducing the strength of al-Qaida.

This gave way to a much more limited palette in the early 1620s when, by reducing the strength and range of the colours, an atmospheric unity was obtained.

This is largely a result of the sharp decline in tree planting rates from the late 1980s onwards following large-scale afforestation schemes in the previous three decades, which is reducing the strength of the forest carbon sink".

Reservoir-induced earthquakes may be caused by the extra weight of the water or, more typically, by increases in the groundwater pore pressure reducing the strength of the rock beneath the reservoir.

Generally, synthesizers include oscillators (to generate repetitive waveforms), mixers (to combine waveforms), filters (to increase the strength of some overtones while reducing the strength of others), and amplifiers (to shape the loudness contours of the sounds).

The monetary policies that drove up unemployment in the early 1980s were purposely undertaken as "a very desirable way of reducing the strength of the working class", as was later famously admitted by one of Margaret Thatcher's chief economic advisers, Alan Budd.

However, on Monday morning, Ukrainian media quoting military sources said Russia had already started reducing the strength of its forces lining the border from 40,000 to about 10,000 The US has called on Russia to disarm irregular forces in Crimea, admit international observers and pull back its troops from the eastern border.

Some researchers alleged a direct effect of knowledge of results, while others, such as American psychologist Clark L. Hull (Principles of Behavior, 1943), produced a complete account of learning based upon need reduction that is, reducing the strength of the drive linking stimulus and response under various experimental conditions.

So now some companies are reducing the strength of their most popular brands.

These biases may contribute to response behaviour, reducing the strength of grammatical explanations.