Excuses were aplenty, with weakening market conditions and unseasonal weather proffered as reasons for poor performance, but the truth is a tougher pill for the executive board to swallow: M&S, the stalwart of the British high street, is floundering inelegantly at the deep end of the fashion pool, while being left behind by its competitors.
Portals of rock tunnels are often in soil or in rock weakened by weathering.
In addition to soil and rock types, key factors include the initial defects controlling behaviour of the rock mass; size of rock block between joints; weak beds and zones, including faults, shear zones, and altered areas weakened by weathering or thermal action; groundwater, including flow pattern and pressure; plus several special hazards, such as heat, gas, and earthquake risk.
Slowly but surely, extreme weather is weakening popular monuments across the globe.
A broad tropical depression formed on the afternoon on July 5 within the disturbed weather area, weakening as it passed over Luzon.
The power line, weakened by winter weather, broke about 5 p.m. on the eastern side of the station, the spokesman said.
However as the heat isolation capacity of the HDPE geomembrane layer is low, the gas generation ability of a shallow landfill is likely to be weakened in cold weather.
By August 3, the National Hurricane Center retracted predictions of less favorable conditions from the cold-low north of Puerto Rico, since that weather system was weakening and moving westward.
8 P.M. (Weather) HACKING THE PLANET John Rennie, a former editor in chief of Scientific American, examines strategies proposed by scientists known as geo-engineers to prevent, weaken or redirect threatening weather conditions and natural phenomena — like deflecting hurricanes, manipulating rainfall, channeling lightning and harnessing the power of tornadoes.
The department store retailer said October same-store sales fell 1.5% on weakening discretionary spending and warmer than expected fall weather.
