Sentence examples for built on a bedrock of from inspiring English sources

The union itself is a happy hybrid: a political sort-of-government and an almost-judicial regulator, built on a bedrock of almost 100,000 pages of legislation.

I'm very aware that traditional horror is built on a bedrock of the kind of tropes and cliches I've listed, but that doesn't mean that it can't be done differently, and better.

To wit: a year's worth of international touring, built on a bedrock of word-of-mouth, DIY-fostered fan-dom; impressive daytime radio play for the Top Ten single "Please Don't Say You Love Me"; courtesy of the single "Panic Cord", localised mania in Japan (albeit "local" in a huge music-consuming market); and heavy social-media engagement in South America.

If E3 was built on a bedrock of selling discs to stores for Christmas, how is it maintaining relevance in a world where we're about to see the majority of sales go to digital distribution and the year has become a homogenised release schedule?

As hundred-year-old business models based on advertising, subscriptions, and retail book-store and newsstand sales – an infrastructure of distribution built on a bedrock of copyright – have crumbled, so has the morale among those who work in what we have learned to call (with a sigh or a sneer) the traditional media.

Ehrenreich quotes David M Eddy, a physician and mathematician, who reports that as a result of his research, "I realised that medical decision-making was not built on a bedrock of evidence or formal analysis, but was standing on Jell-O".

It has been claimed that Borobudur was built on a bedrock hill, 265 m above sea level and 15 m above the floor of a dried-out paleolake.

Toulouse has a reputation for stylish attacking rugby, yet its teams are always built on the bedrock of a brutally powerful pack.

Led from the front by the formidable pairing of Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole, driven in midfield by the likes of Keane, Ryan Giggs and Beckham - who would be voted second in the European Footballer of the Year award at the season's end - and built on the bedrock of a back five that included Jaap Stam, Gary Neville and Peter Schmeichel, United swept all before them.

Then his middle-class dreams — a paid-up mortgage, a nice refrigerator, a pension — would have been built on the bedrock of the union movement and a vital manufacturing economy rather than on the competition that ate into his heart and soul as a salesman, the figure of Everyman.

"We didn't get a dose of economic realism until August of 1993 when President Clinton and I fought for and won an economic plan built on the bedrock of fiscal responsibility".