Sentence examples for foundational institutions from inspiring English sources

Restoration may be no more than two good elections and a few steady leaders away, as long as the foundational institutions of democracy — really, no more than fair voting and counting, but no less than those, either — remain in place.

But the question he should be asking is, How does a nation allow for serious criticism, even of its foundational institutions, when it is quite clearly under a real attack?

Commerce and industry are certainly arenas in which the Internet has had a profound effect, but what of the foundational institutions of any society namely, those related to education and the production of knowledge?

"This generation may adopt the scepticism of their Gen X parents," Hess said, "questioning foundational institutions like organised religion, college, marriage, even capitalism". .

Working with this in mind, they helped to establish some of the foundational institutions of our democracy.

Whether they are local or global, these events directly and indirectly impact the trust we have in foundational institutions such as government and business, as well as the trust we have within ourselves and among each other.

"Marriage is the foundational institution of civilization," Ken Connor, president of the Family Research Council, said in a statement.

"Everybody should be concerned if something as fundamental as changing our foundational institution of society, if the plebiscite on that were rushed," Abetz said.

"But everyone knows my view is very strongly that a marriage between a man and a woman is the foundational institution for socialising the next generation.

To suggest that public schools should be regarded as places for the children of families who can't afford to send their offspring anywhere else is to devalue what should be a foundational institution of democracy.

In these times, students are demanding that administrations go beyond rhetoric and, in the process, engage with the structural history of inequity that is foundational to most institutions of higher learning in this country.