Sentence examples for against the foundations from inspiring English sources

The work stops only when it comes up against the foundations of Palestinian homes.

"This is a crime against the foundations of our common humanity," the president of Ireland, Mary McAleese, said yesterday.

"The persecution and decision to extradite Croatian generals is a trial against the foundations of the Croatian state," the association's leader, Mirko Condic, said, as quoted by The Associated Press.

According to Philip Segal, president of the co-op board, the co-op's engineers have decided that foundation work would be prohibitively expensive and the better course of action would be to build a six-foot retaining wall across the cliff to act as a sort of girdle; the wall, to be camouflaged by landscaping, would stabilize the slope and push soil against the foundations.

7. Tomorrow Group founder Tom Goodwin wrote a piece called "How The Internet Killed Profit" about how he sees the Internet as a destructive force against the foundations of business and how digitalization has skewed economic balance.

Their discontent with Pufendorf's On the Law of Nature and of Nations (De jure naturae et gentium = DJN [1672], Pufendorf 1998a), whose publication they actively tried to hinder, was articulated in An Index of Certain Novelties … against the Foundations of Orthodoxy (Index quarundam novitatum … contra orthodoxa fundamenta [1673])—a list of thirty-one supposed errors in that work.

After being given some time off to recuperate, the Bulldogs continued their rivalry with The Hart Foundation when they teamed up with Tito Santana against the Foundation and the referee-turned-wrestler Danny Davis in a six-man tag team match at WrestleMania III.

The Rev. Erwin W. Lutzer, for example, refers to the book as "a direct attack against the foundation of the Christian faith".

He explained that when water soaks the soil surrounding a house, a column of water in the soil presses against the foundation walls.

Jacques Catafago, a lawyer for the imam and the congregation, said yesterday that he would request an injunction against the foundation's takeover, at a hearing on Thursday.

FBI sources have already leaked that allegations against the foundation are weak, given their source in a book by a far-right author who provides little evidence.