Sentence examples for weak story from inspiring English sources

The revised procedures incorporate the effects of both weak story and weak-column strong-beam behavior.

The performance modifiers considered are soft story, weak story, and the quality of construction, which are collated through a walk down survey.

But all this prowess is in aid of a weak story, in which the audience never has a stake.

Sometimes, cute personality serves in place of jokes, as with the weak story of her rescuing a six-toed cat.

The rest of the package is a little light for the price – not many different modes, a weak story – but the core is solid and charmingly offbeat.

The focus of the play is the characters' eccentricity, but, despite good performances, they're fairly run-of-the-mill, and the dialogue, while sometimes funny, is not colorful enough to carry a long play with a weak story.

Weak stories are subjected to larger lateral loads during earthquakes and under lateral loads their lateral deformations are greater than those of other floors so the design of structural members of weak stories is critical and it should be different from the upper floors.

There are a few weak stories here, made up entirely of dialogue, as if Shepard had chosen to ignore the difference between theater and fiction.

Many structural deficiencies were highlighted by the earthquake damage, including: reinforced concrete columns with insufficient confinement and transverse reinforcement, 90-degree hooks at the end of column ties, poor detailing in beam-column joint regions, strong-beam and weak-columns, soft and weak stories, and poor quality construction.

Reconnaissance reports on structures damaged or collapsed by severe earthquakes have revealed several common characteristics in their structural members and systems, such as insufficient reinforcement details in beam-column joints and transverse confinements, low aspect ratios, soft and or weak stories, and eccentric plans.

(A weaker story, "Georgia the Whole Time," is from the mother's perspective when she learns she is dying).