The primary support unloads and moves outwards, while the secondary support takes load and moves inwards.
The kinship network often serves as the primary support structure in the absence of sufficient social welfare provisions.
The restless young, who have been the primary support of the rise of this kind of folk music over the past five years, regard two performers as their preëminent spokesmen.
Rock bolts are one of the primary support systems utilized in underground excavations within the civil and mining engineering industries.
The primary support is low in strength with no support in the floor, which results in serious floor heave, side shrinking and roof subsidence.
The primary support of a tunnel must be designed to sustain the loads that are transferred from the surrounding ground during excavation.
We know that many older Americans — about 17 percent — live in poverty and that Social Security provides the primary support for nearly half the elderly population.
Dinkins, the Democratic mayor whom Mr. Giuliani unseated in 1993, mocked Mr. Harding's party as an ideological sham yesterday and said that he would not, under any circumstances in the primary, support a Democrat who seeks its support.
No 25 Simone Signoret 1921-85 Rained in Paris, Signoret became the primary support of her family when her Jewish father joined de Gaulle's Free French Army in Britain.
Because the rules take account of only the direct load from the longitudinal stiffeners, and do not consider the effect of the shear force on the primary supporting member, it is probable that the rules give insufficient strength when the effect of the shear force on the primary supporting member superimposes the effect of the load from the longitudinal stiffener.
