Failure occurred along a major joint plane paralleling the slope with a dip of 44°, when a major base level lowering event in the Salt River system would have undermined the base of the failed slope, and probably during a period of more moisture than normally available in the present-day arid climate.
A super-sized joint fundraising committee could also work to undermine the base limits.
The ad blockers of this world are destructive forces, undermining the revenue base of so much news coverage.
"By putting out a lot of headlines about those issues, local governments are undermining the only base we have left.
Growing up in the Kruger National Park in South Africa as apartheid came to an end, Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs was confronted with a pressing question: Could her country's natural resources give people a chance to shake off poverty without undermining the resource base for future generations?
"Neither are they all low-paid positions: one in six ZHC workers are in the three highest-paying occupation groups". But the government is concerned that "precarious working" is undermining the tax base as people on zero hours contracts are generally less well paid and more reliant on in-work benefits.
"We are pursuing an industrial model of agriculture full throttle, which not only contributes significantly to global climate change, but poses risks to human health and biodiversity while undermining the natural resource base upon which agriculture and food security depends," Miles said.
Whereas one dictionary notes that it is the ability "to be maintained at a certain rate or level" [ 13], other definitions emphasize public policy approaches, one of which defines sustainability as the "satisfaction of basic economic, social, and security needs now and in the future without undermining the natural resource base and environmental quality on which life depends" [ 14].
In the UK, austerity measures have failed to meet deficit reduction targets, while promoting labour policies that undermine the tax base, making meeting the targets even harder.
Economic problems in Russia even threaten to undermine the power base of the president, Vladimir Putin, who has built his political reputation on a promise of stability, the restoration of Russia's great power status and rising living standards.
