Sentence examples for structure vulnerable from inspiring English sources

The idea was to detach Bankia's banking business from the contaminated parent, but the fall in Bankia's value made the whole structure vulnerable.

Long before other experts worried about such things, Mr. Lovins also described the nation's reliance on big power plants and a nationwide electric grid as a brittle power structure vulnerable to terrorism and extensive blackouts.

Bevan did not want a health service structure vulnerable to fragmentation, and he would no doubt have strongly disapproved of the UK government's changes to the English NHS.

This is the instillation of liquid (dextrose 5%, sterile water) or gas (air, carbon dioxide) between the area of ablation and the structure vulnerable to heating damage (usually the bowel).

Yet some neighbors, including the Brooklyn Heights Association, as well as the New York Landmarks Conservancy, went to court to stop the move, which, one of their lawyers said Wednesday, would have set a precedent leaving other historic structures vulnerable to private development.

This leaves these structures vulnerable to potential laminar cracking and delamination, especially during post-tensioning and/or detensioning process.

Long-term chloride-induced corrosion of steel reinforcement would make concrete structures vulnerable to deterioration and as a result shorten their service life.

For existing structures vulnerable to impacts, the development of appropriate strengthening techniques is key to extending service life and improving robustness.

USGS calculates that a total of 6.2 million people would have felt severe to extreme shaking that could cause heavy to very heavy damage to structures vulnerable to seismic shaking.

We hypothesized that older adults with depressive symptoms have less volume in limbic structures vulnerable to changes in AD, specifically cortical midline structures such as anterior cingulate and posterior cingulate cortex as well as mesial temporal regions such as bilateral hippocampi and amygdalae.

The structure becomes vulnerable to the torsion since the torsional rigidity of structure decreases.