The phrase "a cornerstone concept" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize some idea or concept that is basic and important to a larger system or field of knowledge. For example, "Education is a cornerstone concept for any democracy - it provides a way for all citizens to access the same opportunities."
But personalization, my cornerstone concept for Web 3.0, languishes.
Even though the latent period has traditionally been the cornerstone concept representing epileptogenesis, we suggest that the evidence for the existence of a latent period is spotty both for animal models and human epilepsy.
One of the finest and most enduring gifts that America provides to the world is the rigorously, though sometimes imperfectly applied cornerstone concept of religious freedom to its residents, and the protection of religious practice and places through both civil and criminal law.
In recent years, LD has been exploited to the extent that it has become the cornerstone concept for research in genetic epidemiology of complex diseases, since it allows indirect association mapping, as implemented in the recent flurry of genomewide association studies [ 14].
Going back decades to Dungeons & Dragons, one of the cornerstone concepts of a role-playing game has been that players primarily build up their virtual characters through the meticulous accumulation and selection of equipment and skills.
While to be sure, the Hebrew term "yesôd" (literally "foundation") is a cornerstone term and concept in Jewish mysticism, the desire to read Ibn Gabirol Kabbalistically (as a proto-Zoharian) is simply under-supported by the mere fact that he (and his Hebrew translator) use the term "yesôd".
A cornerstone of this concept is enhanced coordination between the agriculture and public health sectors for disease surveillance, detection, and control.
The common action of drugs of abuse to stimulate mesolimbic dopamine transmission is a cornerstone of the modern concept of the brain reward system.
President Hu Jintao of China has made the Confucian concept of a harmonious society a cornerstone of his ruling ideology.
Educational organizations supporting the legitimacy of the concept of biological evolution as a cornerstone of the science of biology include: [long list omitted].
