"That conversation really was foundational for us," Eddings said.
Thus the Bloomsbury set evinced "the very English idea that aesthetic preferences are foundational for political and (especially) moral views".
But the movement understood itself as engaged in a struggle for something more foundational: for citizenship, the status from which freedom and equal rights flowed.
"A degree in the humanities is foundational for someone who is an urban planner or in the tourism industry, for example.
In that context he wrote of precious metals and gems, which were considered foundational for any economic system, and he wrote of diamonds and their particular social importance.
"We have under-invested in primary care, even though it's 300 million patient visits a year and it's absolutely essential and foundational for an equitable and cost-effective NHS," he added.
Baraka was foundational for a generation of writers who emerged in his wake, a singular figure whose work laid down the terms of engagement for many, if not most, of us who came to the craft after him.
At the bottom of the table, there is a question: "Will the survivors envy the dead?" Kahn believed and this belief is foundational for every argument in his book that the answer is no.
Techstars was foundational for us.
Nonetheless, the life-community is foundational for society.
René Descartes' rationalist system of philosophy is foundational for the Enlightenment in this regard.
