Sentence examples for soft operating from inspiring English sources

Moody's Investors Service lowered its rating of Saks yesterday to below investment grade and said the outlook for the company was negative, citing "soft operating performance of the company's department store chains" and difficult conditions in the retailing industry.

This transformation was performed by a simple one-pot process without modifying the previously designed porosity of the xerogel, at very soft operating conditions (80 °C and atmospheric pressure) in the absence of catalyst or any other additional compound.

Arriba Soft operated an Internet search engine that displayed results in the form of small pictures ("thumbnails").

This paper introduces the theory of soft PLC, discusses the PLC software models and implementations based on the EIC61131-3 standetailedtailedescribeses the principle and implementation of soft PLC operating system programs, designs soft PLC running system software based on industrial PC, constructs soft logic control system based on industrial PC.

David Dodwell, one of the authors of "The Hong Kong Advantage", estimates that two-thirds of Hong Kong's 30,000 producers of clothes and soft toys operate in two locations (usually China as well as Hong Kong) but that as many as a fifth now have plants in two places outside Hong Kong.

To minimise irradiation damage of the surrounding soft tissues, lasers operating at wavelengths that are 'safe' for the tissues and biomaterials with improved optical properties are required.

With shareholders now as much a consideration as employees, he spun off noncore businesses, like the harlequin's quilt of subsidiaries, which did everything from making furniture to bottling soft drinks to operating the Norilsk phone system.

Since this discovery, research efforts have mostly been focused on preparation methods aiming at establishing reproducible soft chemistry routes operating at moderate to low temperatures and using aqueous media [2 5].

Ed also serves as Founder, Chairman and CEO of Chestnut Land Company, the holding company for Auntie Anne's Soft Pretzel franchises operating throughout the United States.

The soft-input soft-output (SISO) decoders operate on soft information to improve the decoding performance.

In particular, the adviser used soft dollar payments to pay: i) an employee's salary and bonus for operating the soft dollar program; ii) a former spouse of a principal of the adviser in connection with a marital settlement agreement; iii) rent to a company that the principal owned; and iv) the costs of a timeshare that the principal maintained to visit his family and entertain guests.