Sentence examples for a touchstone on from inspiring English sources

But the metal is something of a touchstone on the supply side, too.

They also kick off Carnegie's season, a touchstone on the New York concert calendar.

With the novel a sensation and a touchstone on a scale that frightened her, Lee retreated to Monroeville.

And his borrowings don't even suggest an interventionist cinephilia that uses such classics as a touchstone on which to test modern mores.

Though deeply entangled in politics and industrial policy, the Yukos case, the first of several instances in which petroleum assets were seized by the Putin government, also became a touchstone on fundamental issues of rule of law.

Now, six years later - I find myself looking for a touchstone on that day, an element or a moment that would connect me with that time.

Some years ago Schiff gave a series of lectures on Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas, which remain a touchstone of public service broadcasting on music.

A touchstone of Clarence Thomas's career on the Supreme Court has been his hostility to what he calls élites.

Traditional dissolution testing is a touchstone of formulation development based on the need for useful dissolution rates and drug availability.

The questions about Melania Trump's immigration history are particularly sensitive for Donald Trump, who has made attacks on immigrants a touchstone of his presidential campaign.

Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blowup," just out on DVD, is a touchstone of 1960's cinema culture.