Sentence examples for foundations of our state from inspiring English sources

"They have looted the foundations of our state.

The source of the psychic energy of German postwar society, he explains, consisted "in the secret kept by all of the corpses walled up in the foundations of our state... a secret that bound the Germans together after the war -- and still binds them today -- more closely than any positive goal, such as the realization of democracy, ever could".

Elsewhere in this book, he writes strikingly about how, after the war, Germany preferred not to examine its crimes but to repress "the well-kept secret of the corpses built into the foundations of our state, a secret that bound all Germans together in the postwar years, and indeed still binds them".

The foundations of our welfare state are commonly credited to William Beveridge, the stern Victorian whose wartime calculations linked insurance stamps paid in with benefits drawn out, and for a time consigned enemies of social security to the fringe.

"This is the foundation of our Palestinian state".

John Rutledge later wrote that "Coke's Institutes seems to be almost the foundations of our law", while Jefferson stated that "a sounder Whig never wrote more profound learning in the orthodox doctrine of British liberties".

The Republicans are supported by a reactionary right wing seeking to turn back Roe v. Wade and introduce religion into the schools; they support the bearing of arms by anybody and everybody, and oppose one of the foundations of our democracy: separation of church and state.

Lack of work and low income leads to health challenges and can weaken the foundation of our generous welfare state ― which has been an important basis for the economic growth in Norway through many years".

"Nobody is against propaganda films that would support the foundations of the state.

"Im Tirtzu is threatening the foundations of the state of Israel as a democratic and Jewish state," she said.

The military was used to fend off the rise of any pro-Islamic parties or those that threatened the secular foundations of the state.