Sentence examples for basic pillar from inspiring English sources

"It Can't Happen Here" is an argument for journalism as a basic pillar of democracy.

The basic pillar of democracy is the inviolable integrity of the individual.

Most significantly, the administration's policy has interfered with a basic pillar or tenet of Islam: zakat, or almsgiving.

This runs counter to a basic pillar in medicine that doctors and patients remain strongly attached to: the annual checkup.

Snapping this most basic pillar of the alliance's defence arrangements has outraged the new members from eastern Europe.

At times, it seemed almost like a comical conceit, like those movies that pivot on the sudden disappearance of a basic pillar of life, "Death Takes a Holiday" or even "The Invention of Lying".

He said his approach was based on three basic pillars.

First, we've let our five basic pillars of growth erode since the end of the cold war — education, infrastructure, immigration of high-I.Q.

The Republican Party is drifting back to a place where it appears hostile to the basic pillars of the welfare state: to food stamps, for example.

The right to peacefully express views is one that we hold very dear in the UK and is one of the basic pillars of our society".

Stop, look, listen and think: they've been the basic pillars of road safety for decades, but they're being ignored en masse every day.