The spiral staircase to the lower level had real rocks in it — the bedrock left standing when the house was settled onto its perch on the hill.
"You're standing on bedrock 650 million years old," said Mr. Dial, 76, who retired after 30 years as a vice president for external affairs of Union Carbide.
They are standing against the bedrock principles of the Constitution that they so strongly claim they want to uphold.
"It's not about left or right, but about moving America and our economy forward!" "We choose American might and American muscle, standing on the bedrock of the American ideal!" "Our platform emphasises that a vibrant free and fair market is essential to economic growth!
And as a purely practical matter, I'm standing on granite bedrock.
It will be interesting to see how it all works out, and it'd be a lot more interesting if the media would pick up on any of these bedrock contradictions in what the Republicans are standing for at the moment.
Its challenge--to do so without ever having to address the bedrock axioms upon which it all rests--long standing assumptions and premises which underlie the existing system and support its practices.
Networks matter, but they don't occur from a standing start; they are seeds thrown on the ground, and pre-existing conditions from soil to bedrock determine whether or not they will flourish.
