Additional ballasting of the piers was also needed.

New deeper ballasting has taken place along many sections of the line and this will be continued until the line has all been done.

Water ballasting is not available.

Outgassed water can condense in the oil of rotary vane pumps and reduce their net speed drastically if gas ballasting is not used.

No contracts had been let for the ballasting or plate laying of the formation completed thus far or the continuation of the line beyond the tunnel.

It is mainly installed by pulling it off the yard, by either wet-tow or/and dry-tow, and self-installing by controlled ballasting of the compartments with sea water.

A different opinion (unofficial) came from some naval architects and marine engineers stating that the ship broke up due to incorrect ballasting (the ship had no cargo at the moment of the accident).

After the Northern Pacific assumed control, it became necessary to incur great expenditures in providing additional sidings, spurs and other facilities for the ordinary transaction of business, and to perform additional ballasting.

By designing the RAIS module and its proprietary filtering reflector as structural components in the Wave system, the company developed a minimal ballasting, easy-to-install system which requires no roof penetration.

There is little difference in weight between the metal shell and GRP shell helmets because of this ballasting, and the weight is directly proportional to the total volume - smaller helmets are lighter.

The Aeroscraft has a rigid aeroshell and an internal ballast control system that provides it VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) and hover capability at maximum payload without the use of off-board ballasting, as well as off and on-loading stores while hovering.

The report would have been better without such intellectual ballast.

It's right out at the end there, by the ballast.

They had used most of the ballast and were running on only one good engine.

With the ballast of one another's company, however, they spoke.

I had more ballast now, and a bit less coordination.

Oliver is well enough to take his ballast after all.

I've never heard such a load of ballast in my life.

I'm on my way to the dig now and could use some ballast.

There is also a high potential for them to be spread through ballast water.

She was the ballast he had wanted, the vital center of a new and better life.

Third, the wrong type of ballast may have been installed.

Maybe the problem with the ballast control will go away."

And with its jumps from past to present, the movie could use ballast.

It appears that a ballast problem was the more likely cause.

One problem is the ballast treatment systems are largely still under development.

Thus a ballast is needed to regulate the current through them.

"I think I've figured out what our ballast is going to be."

And they didn't seem to know anything about ballast, either.

I put it down in the ballast with my other things."

At least she was providing good ballast for her partner.

"And then the satisfaction of telling him what they are using as ballast!"

"Alternatives not only provide ballast, but another source of power."

"The last of the ballast was dumped an hour ago."

"A little more ballast than I had planned on, though."

This seems to be the first approach to the modern ballast tank.