Sentence examples for as foundational from inspiring English sources

Years later, Eminem would cite Treach verses like these as foundational to his own career.

Very few early Fabian arguments on economics, which they saw as foundational, survive.

But the German media has unanimously hailed MacGregor's appointment as foundational artistic director of the Humboldt as a major coup for Berlin.

There is perhaps more to find fault with in Darwin's later books, The Descent of Man and The Expression of the Emotions, which have been taken as foundational gospels by the rather vulgar group who call themselves evolutionary psychologists.

Magna Carta has been taken as foundational to the rule of law, chiefly because in it King John promised that he would stop throwing people into dungeons whenever he wished, a provision that lies behind what is now known as due process of law and is understood not as a promise made by a king but as a right possessed by the people.

Strange how a relationship — the relationship — that I understand as truly primal, as foundational, for good and for ill, to the construction of my self, my world view, my art, and my approach to being a father, should for decades now have consisted of and subsisted on a studied avoidance of any but the most ancillary and weightless interactions!

For a long time, of course, philosophy was included under religion's umbrella, not in the modern sense that leads to courses like "The Philosophy of Religion," but in the deeper sense in which religious doctrines are accepted as foundational and philosophy proceeds within them.

Reid states first principles that serve as foundational commitments.

In fact, we typically treat them as foundational, in need of no further justification.

In that book Griffin's view is more identifiable as foundational pluralism.

Holkot assumed most of Ockham's philosophical positions as foundational, taking them for granted in the development of his theology.