Sentence examples for foundation story from inspiring English sources

Five centuries later the capital city's foundation story would be depicted and memorialized on Mexico's national flag.

Like the Kikuyu in Kenya, the Dinka are often accused by the region's other 40-plus tribes of tailoring South Sudan's foundation story to suit their own ends.The land of the Bor Dinka is vast and fertile but flat.

There are a host of reasons for that, to do with 20th century history, German attitudes to Europe and the central role of Franco-German reconciliation in the foundation story of the EU.

Hubbard created a foundation story about strange events 75m years ago when Earth (then called Teegeeack) was part of a confederation of 90 planets under the leadership of a tyrannical ruler named Xenu.

The Whitshank family – Red and Abby, now in their early old age, and their two sons, two daughters and numerous grandchildren – cleave to the myth of family precisely because they lack an elaborate foundation story.

Russia, by contrast, is a country where the general principle of a toughly enforced ideology, and a national foundation story, still seems natural to many people, including the country's elite.In a telling sign of how he wants Russians to imagine their past, President Vladimir Putin has introduced a new national day November 4th to replace the old communist Revolution Day holiday on November 7th.

Both cities set great store by foundation stories that were believed to have unfolded many centuries earlier.

Mr. Ramis, by contrast, fashions a seamless narrative from Zed and Oh's adventures, jettisoning the usual time frames associated with these foundation stories to create something of an ahistorical collage.

The northern histories record the foundation stories of the various Cistercian houses in the north, along with other information relating to those houses.

Some of the most powerful and long-lasting stories are the foundation stories, also called origin or creation myths such as the Dreamtime myths of the Australian aborigines, the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, or the Hawaiian stories of the origin of the world.

Given that "The Proposition" tells something of a national-foundation story, there's a primal, almost biblical tint to its parts.