The phrase "became foundational to" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It typically means that something played a major role in establishing a strong or essential basis for something else. It suggests that the thing being described was crucial or fundamental in some way. Here is an example of how you could use this phrase in a sentence: "The study of mathematics became foundational to the development of modern science and technology."
In his talk, Snowden focused on advocating for encryption and other cybersecurity measures to become foundational to the architecture of the internet and to connected devices, as well as urging sustained political activism around privacy measures.
It's also about the bluntness of G.D.P. as a measurement tool (it fails to capture "the liberation of women, who previously had to perform the Monday ritual curse of laundry done by scrubbing on a wash board") and the grand and perhaps unsustainable narrative of material progress that has become foundational to the "American dream".
One of the main takeaways is that while the water bottles, filters, other temporary band aids are welcome, what Children's Health Fund can do, and will do, is to focus on supporting three critical areas where addressing short term immediate needs strategically becomes foundational to long term solutions.
The core of Sand's historical case is that the whole story is a myth: a very elaborate fiction, supported by hordes of eminent scholars, which became foundational and essential for the state of Israel, but mostly a very recent fabrication without much evidence.
Mitchel's Jail Journal (1854) remains one of the great prose classics of Irish writing, and his trenchant critiques of the British Empire and of British policy in Ireland during the famine became foundational texts for the later Irish republican movement.
A good deal of feminist criticism has been focused on eighteenth-century philosophy because of the many influential works on beauty, pleasure, and taste that were written at that time and that became foundational texts for contemporary theories.
These four criteria (i.e., ontological, educative, catalytic, and tactical authenticity) became foundational for what we would later describe as authentic inquiry, which is a complex, multilogical framework that embraces ethical conduct characterized by care, compassion, honesty, courage, social justice, and autonomy.
His mid-00s 12"s under the name became foundational elements of the decade's minimal boom and still sound ludicrously fresh today.
