The founding idea of modern economics is Adam Smith's invisible hand, and this great idea, badly over-simplified, was the foundation of many bad ideas of the last generation.
I just wish I'd thought of the foundation idea a couple of weeks ago when I was writing a column on the subject: that would have looked really prescient.
The union's foundation was "the idea of peace", she said.
It was Mr. DiFrancesco who first gave a strong bipartisan foundation to the idea of a Newark arena last June.
Pasta, rice, bread and potatoes were the foundation for our idea of health, but also for our culinary culture.
By the end of the Middle Ages, the development of the territorial monarchies had laid the foundation for the idea of the modern nation-state.
In 1993, however, the board of the foundation floated the idea of doing something that well-financed organizations rarely do: go out of business.
Back on land, she asked questions of experts, commissioned weighty research from the consultants McKinsey, and eventually launched the Foundation around the idea of the circular economy.
"We set up the foundation with the idea of ladies having a choir wherever they're posted to - and now there are 76 choirs as far afield as Brunei".
Theories of human needs, human interests and human agency provide analytical foundations for the idea of human rights.
