Sentence examples for weak and flexible from inspiring English sources

Environmental laws are weak and flexible.

Environmental laws are weak and flexible and are influenced by private interests and markets.

Other contributing factors in pipe failure are poor or inadequate design, poor workmanship during installations or maintenance and inadequate or weak and flexible support.

The results from this study indicated that the Types 1 and 2 cores were very weak and flexible making their implementation in bridge deck panels less practical.

Therefore, each hook has a single degree of freedom which, Gorb [1] says, decreases the contact separation force and increases the propensity of the fruit to attach because the ability to bend implies weaker and flexible cell structures yet a greater ability to become attached in a probabilistic manner.

Those kept out of work by burdensome regulation on the continent may find a job with ease in a country with weak unions and flexible work rules, perhaps on a zero-hours or part-time contract.

The material, reinforced carbon-carbon taken from the shuttle Discovery, is substantially weaker and less flexible than fiberglass.

By rescuing the weakest and least flexible company in the industry, the government prevents the market adjusting and penalises every other generator and the public.

In this model we introduce the weaker and more flexible assumption that the technical marginal rate of substitution between skilled (resp. educated) labor and unskilled (resp. non-educated) labor is decreasing in the quality to be produced.

Obesity costs Canada between $4.6 and $7.1 billion annually, and the Canadian Health Measures Survey says kids today are "fatter, rounder, weaker, and less flexible than their parents were a generation ago".

Obesity costs Canada between $4.6 and $7.1 billion [$3.4 and $5.3 billion USD] annually, and the Canadian Health Measures Survey says kids today are "fatter, rounder, weaker, and less flexible than their parents were a generation ago".