The call by the groups represents a recognition that in one bedrock element of the conservative movement — evangelical Christians — the demography of their followers is changing, becoming more Hispanic, and that Republican leaders risk being out of step with their hawkish talk of border fences and immigration crackdowns like those in Arizona.
The other bedrock element was water, whose importance was measured by its dearth.
There was a refinement of bedrock elements: fealty to strong melodies, a logical approach to thematic improvisation, keyboard dynamics, evolved counterpoint.
In all the diverse management contexts we have studied, we have asked people to identify the bedrock elements of fair process.
The bedrock elements of Trump's support, which have thus far provided him with a floor in his polling numbers, have settled on a strategy that is the equivalent of selling one's car in order to afford new tires.
But in its systematic effort to erase President Barack Obama's fingerprints from higher education, the measure before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce could undermine bedrock elements that have guided university education for decades.
And by delegitimizing the country's first black president, speculating that the election would be "rigged," and denigrating bedrock elements of the political West such as NATO and the European Union, Trump wittingly served all three Russian objectives on the campaign trail — and continues to do so in office.
Their rapport has elements of the tortured, father-son relationship Paul Gascoigne and Bobby Robson endured – a bedrock of understanding and a dollop of exasperation.
"Supporting work is a bedrock Conservative belief.
Gorer found marriage a bedrock of society.
"It's a bedrock belief of mine".
