AM (amplitude modulation) signals are susceptible to interference from numerous objects, especially as they weaken away from their source.
"Britain is not just stronger in Europe, it is more imaginative and more creative, and our global creative success would be severely weakened by walking away".
Though Ms. Gillard's supporters in Parliament handed Mr. Rudd a resounding defeat, the prime minister walked away weakened even more and in need of a political victory, analysts said.
Jack Nowell got the only try of a scrappy first half as a weakened Bayonne gave away a host of penalties.
However, the warning was lifted after the hurricane weakened and moved away from land.
In May, more than 250 actors, artists, musicians and writers wrote an open letter warning that "our global creative success would be severely weakened by walking away" from Europe.
The idea that Scotland could negotiate an acceptable monetary union with the rest of the UK while it's trying to move away, weakening the banking union, moving away from fiscal union, that would be catastrophic for interest rates, for taxes and for economic stability for Scotland and for the rest of the UK.
But leaving aside bridges that were hit by trucks, ships or barges, or those weakened by water washing away the dirt under the foundations, events like the one in Minnesota are very rare, federal officials say.
The US genuinely fears that its ability to stabilise the region and maintain its credibility with regional allies the world over will be fatally weakened if it walks away.
Long-term consequences for the rest of the world are hard to predict but it is probably safe to say that many of the regimes whose global role rests on hydrocarbons alone are likely to be significantly weakened, if not swept away.
