"foundational act" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when discussing the key or fundamental action or principle that serves as the basis for something. Example: The signing of the Declaration of Independence was a foundational act for the establishment of the United States of America.
Think instead of the foundational act of the biotechnology industry, 40 years ago.
Asked to explain the lack of visible enthusiasm for what many in Erbil bill as a foundational act of nation building, he added: "The people in Sulaimaniya are more cultured and intellectual.
Macron views his election as a foundational act.
But since this was the first terrorist attack in Britain since the EU referendum – leaving aside that foundational act of Brexit terror: the assassination of Labour MP Jo Cox – the response by the far-right, and the sect of Brexiteers that parrot many of their views, has been louder and more determined than usual.
Just as new policies were put in place to legalize torture, so the detention of terror suspects without charges or trials (including people who, we now know, were treated horrifically despite being innocent of anything) became a foundational act of the administration.
And a simple gesture like Wright's breaking a twig of sweet betsy from outside V's daughter's house in Arkansas calls to mind the foundational elegiac act — Apollo shaping his crown from the laurel branch — as well as all its later manifestations, in Milton, Shelley, and Whitman.
Fisa is an acronym for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a foundational 1978 law governing the interception within the United States of communications related to foreign espionage and now terrorism.
The votes have targeted foundational protections like the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act, created over the past four decades by Republicans and Democrats in both houses of Congress.
Some House Republicans have given us cause for worry this summer, unleashing an environmental broadside through bills that would undermine foundational protections like the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act, as well as dozens of harmful policy riders attached to larger spending bills.
This implies that, the success of a potential entrepreneur is largely dependent on their entrepreneurial intuition which acts as foundational catalyst that may provoke personal initiatives towards entrepreneurship success.
The path toward organizational trustworthiness goes through foundational values and ongoing acts of courageous drift correction.
