Sentence examples for bedrock of state from inspiring English sources

Likewise, the Lifetime Isa is not something families on modest incomes can afford to use and will most likely be adopted by wealthy parents as another way to save for their children with a bedrock of state cash.

It can and must be part of the bedrock of nation states and the fabric of societies.

The bedrock belief of state politics is that any curtailment of the military presence threatens not only the local economy but national security itself.

Once the bedrock of the state, the manufacturing industry is evaporating.

The bedrock of our state will be a constitution written by the Libyan people and endorsed in a public referendum.

Gov. George E. Pataki said in his Fourth of July cornerstone speech that the 20-ton block came from the Adirondacks, "the bedrock of our state".

Using a 20-ton slab of Adirondack granite -- "the bedrock of our state" -- as a fitting cornerstone, Gov. George Pataki announced yesterday that the rebuilding at ground zero had officially begun.

To those a little closer to home, like the Salafist Sheikh Ahmed al-Assir, whose fighters have killed at least 20 Lebanese soldiers since Saturday, the call to account, led by the Gulf, means taking the fight to the Lebanese army – an institution regarded as the bedrock of the state, but one which defers to Hezbollah.

And like an enormous high-pressure fire hose, the water moved massive amounts of rock and left scars in the bedrock of four states.

"The men and women at the top of the big Swedish concerns were the bedrock of the welfare state," Wallander thinks, "especially now, now that the whole edifice of the welfare state was showing signs of crumbling".

As federal judge Mark Goldsmith has stated, "the right to vote, and to have that vote conducted fairly and counted accurately – is the bedrock of our nation".