Sentence examples for a basic pillar from inspiring English sources

"It Can't Happen Here" is an argument for journalism as a basic pillar of democracy.

This runs counter to a basic pillar in medicine that doctors and patients remain strongly attached to: the annual checkup.

Most significantly, the administration's policy has interfered with a basic pillar or tenet of Islam: zakat, or almsgiving.

At times, it seemed almost like a comical conceit, like those movies that pivot on the sudden disappearance of a basic pillar of life, "Death Takes a Holiday" or even "The Invention of Lying".

Partnership with the USA remains a basic pillar of German foreign policy in order for us to meet the great challenges of our time: striving for economic and social wellbeing and a forward-looking climate policy, the fight against terrorism, hunger and disease, engagement for peace and freedom, in Germany, Europe and all over the world".

Some of them don't believe in hating men (a basic pillar of feminist theory).

If a country can't run a national library and an opera – the basic pillars of a nation's culture – then we might as well lock everything up and jump into the Mediterranean".

In any society education is assumed to be a basic welfare pillar.

The basic pillar of democracy is the inviolable integrity of the individual.

Snapping this most basic pillar of the alliance's defence arrangements has outraged the new members from eastern Europe.

According to data, on street illegal parking reduction has to be one basic pillar of mobility policies.