Sentence examples for a material foundation from inspiring English sources

Homer allows Chapman to be aerial and to skim the waves, but also gives him a material foundation in the axle which floats above the water, heavy matter lifting itself towards air.

It's not just a material foundation: it's a soul foundation". .

Try to ask yourself questions like "would this person still like me if I couldn't afford to take her out?" and "can we enjoy each others' company without spending any money?" If you're not able to answer "yes" to many of these questions, a relationship with this person may have a material foundation, rather than an emotional one.

But they also celebrate ideas, which are the true touchstones of our way of life, more than any material foundation.

"Only by promoting both healthy and fast economic development can we secure a strong material foundation for the great revival of the Chinese nation".

"Thanks to years of rapid development, China has laid a solid material foundation, and its economy is hugely resilient and has enormous potential and ample room for growth," he said.

Energy is an important material foundation for the development of national economy.

"If China's economy can grow at this rate for a relatively long time," he explained, "we will secure a more solid material foundation for modernisation".

Immediately afterwards, with the material foundation of society gone, a dramatic collapse occurs.

Sand composition on the land surface is the material foundation of the formation of a dust storm (Lee and Sohn 2011).

This bit of commercial intrigue provides the fairly banal material foundation on which Mr. Nolan's phantasmagorical world is built.