Sentence examples for weak buildings from inspiring English sources

Others were trapped for days on end under Haiti's alarmingly weak buildings.

Also on Wednesday, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his government would crack down on the poor construction that has been blamed for the scope of the disaster, saying the government would more strictly enforce building laws and demolish especially weak buildings.

In recommending how to mitigate the ongoing danger, the commission limits itself to quite general comments about improving the resilience of weak buildings, both public and private.

"Universities are really one of the fundamental building blocks of society, but in many Arab countries, they are weak building blocks," he said in an interview at the trust's office.

| Updated The latest earthquake in Turkey — that country's strongest in a decade — provides a fresh reminder of the deep vulnerability created by weak building designs in the world's crowded seismic danger zones.

Natural structural materials such as bone and seashells are made of relatively weak building blocks, yet they exhibit remarkable combinations of stiffness, strength and toughness.

Fossil fuel consumption has now joined the traditional drivers of disaster risk such as poverty, inappropriate land use, weak building codes, the disappearance of protective ecosystems and lax governance, as drivers of preventable loss of life, displacement and loss of livelihoods.

Where mutual respect and trust among CHWs and key actors in the community and health system have been absent or weak, building this relationship may have to be a first priority [ 49].

Vulnerability classes range from A (the weakest buildings, having the highest indices) to F (the most resistant ones, with the lowest scores).

Extensive tree damage was also reported across the island, as well as structural damage to weaker buildings, such as barns and silos.

The results clearly confirm that special attention should be paid to appropriate design of a weaker building, for which earthquake-induced structural pounding can be catastrophic.