Sentence examples for foundations of wall from inspiring English sources

New York's financial sector boomed at the outset of the 21st century, until the recession in the last years of the decade brought down several prominent banks and trading institutions and shook the foundations of Wall Street.

The New York Post points out that two decades ago Business Week was at the center of what was then the largest-ever insider-trading scandal to shake the foundations of Wall Street.

The idea was a bigger hit with the press than with regulators.Michael Lewis, of "Liar's Poker" fame, has suggested that the move away from partnership shifted the psychological foundations of Wall Street "from trust to blind faith", allowing bankers to get one over on shareholders and taxpayers.

To ensure adequate support without detrimental settlement of the wall, to ensure its lateral stability, and to prevent problems of scour, it is necessary to carry the foundations of the wall below the seabed level in some cases a considerable distance below.

Yet the activities of the News of the World, a paper which generated less than 1% of the group's profits, has shaken the foundations of the Wall Street-listed company so hard it is in danger of crumbling.

The northern and western sides were identified and sectioned in 1964 and the foundations of a wall at the south west corner were uncovered.

The most conspicuous feature is the city wall erected in 1538 40 by the Ottoman sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, largely on the foundations of earlier walls dating chiefly to the period of the Crusades but in some places to Byzantine, Herodian, and even Hasmonean times.

Foundations of city walls survive at Volterra, Volsinii, and Cortona, but those of Perugia are more complete and have surviving vaulted gates.