Sentence examples for a foundational act from inspiring English sources

Asked to explain the lack of visible enthusiasm for what many in Erbil bill as a foundational act of nation building, he added: "The people in Sulaimaniya are more cultured and intellectual.

Macron views his election as a foundational act.

Just as new policies were put in place to legalize torture, so the detention of terror suspects without charges or trials (including people who, we now know, were treated horrifically despite being innocent of anything) became a foundational act of the administration.

Think instead of the foundational act of the biotechnology industry, 40 years ago.

But since this was the first terrorist attack in Britain since the EU referendum – leaving aside that foundational act of Brexit terror: the assassination of Labour MP Jo Cox – the response by the far-right, and the sect of Brexiteers that parrot many of their views, has been louder and more determined than usual.

Fisa is an acronym for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a foundational 1978 law governing the interception within the United States of communications related to foreign espionage and now terrorism.

NEPA is short for a foundational 1969 environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act, that required federal agencies to consider environmental consequences of their actions — all kinds of actions, ranging from granting a permit to drill on public lands to building a new road or bridge.

In Northern Ireland, the Human Rights Act has been accepted as a foundational document, and since 1998 the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has been busy, not trying to get rid of it or replace it, but attempting to build upon it.

James Brown Give It Up or Turnit a Loose (1969) Brown's propulsive hit became a foundational hip-hop break and was later sampled by acts such as 2 Live Crew and Jungle Brothers.

Simply identifying a person as a voter, as many volunteers did — "Mr. Jones, we know you have voted in the past" — acts as a subtle prompt to future voting, said Dr. Cialdini, a foundational figure in the science of persuasion.

Jones, we know you have voted in the past" — acts as a subtle prompt to future voting, said Dr. Cialdini, a foundational figure in the science of persuasion.