Sentence examples for edifice on which from inspiring English sources

But the scientists wrote that one set of studies on a single species was "not a sufficient edifice on which to build a regulary assessment".

These studies of the late 1970s and '80s challenged the intellectual edifice on which the study of kinship had been built and gave rise to a lively debate over the mutual definition of kinship and gender.

That singular construct is the edifice on which he built his social empire - market based solutions to poverty.

As his widow grapples with the mess he has left behind, his children begin to question the edifice on which their own beliefs are based.

"Start pulling out those very building blocks on which the entire edifice is built, and what is China left with?" Minzner asked.

His theory, unchallenged in science, is the foundation on which the edifice of modern biology is built.

Fichte gave a practical or voluntarist cast to the formula cogito, ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am"), which Descartes had proposed as the bedrock of certainty on which the edifice of human knowledge could be constructed.

In short, by the time of Copernicus and Galileo in the 16th century, a fairly broad substratum of physical science existed, largely empirical but not without theoretical implications on which the edifice of modern physical science could be built.

It is not deductive because philosophical concepts do not possess the status of Cartesian first principles on which the edifice of knowledge is deductively built.

Some observers called for his departure: "Allowing those with criminal charges against them to occupy ministerial office would undermine the very principles on which the edifice of parliamentary democracy is built," editorialized The Hindu, India's leading national daily paper.

According to Halliday and Hasan (1985 [1989], p. 94), "cohesion is the foundation on which the edifice of coherence is built", and "the basis for textual coherence lies in cohesion" (Hasan 1984, p. 210).