The phrase "foundational achievement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant accomplishment that serves as a basis for further development or success.
Example: "The invention of the internet was a foundational achievement that transformed global communication."
Alternatives: "key milestone" or "cornerstone accomplishment".
On another level, when we lack a foundational understanding of the intellectual achievements of the distant past, living authors seem much more impressive and original than they actually are.
As an education advocate for all children with a focus on foster youth I believe PTA's National Standards for Family -- School Partnershiss is one of the foundational supports to help foster families increase and sustain academic achievement for the youth in out-of-home placement.
With further study of Markovian jump systems, many achievements have been made in the last decade, among which Shaikhet and Mao performed foundational work on stochastic stability for jump systems [17 19] and jump systems with time delays [20 23].
To interpret it as a foundational change, ushering something new and unknown, is to diminish the past, to unduly singularize Mr. Obama's achievement and to raise unrealistic expectations about his presidency.
We believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth, one that has stood up to rigorous scrutiny and upon which much of human knowledge and achievement rests.
May 9th, when Russians celebrate the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany, is the country's only true national holiday — a day to remember the collective suffering and achievement of the Second World War, which is the closest thing that post-Soviet Russia has to a foundational unifying story.
I want foundational health.
"RISC was foundational," Andreessen says.
To the degree that she is still remembered for her own achievements, it is mainly by a few libertarian ultras for whom her tract of 1943, "The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority," is a foundational work of political theory.
