Sentence examples for founded on rock from inspiring English sources

Founded on rock and facing the night-fouled sea.

By Richard Wilbur The New Yorker, May 17 , 1952P. 36 Founded on rock and facing the night-fouled sea View Article By Phil Klay By Troy Patterson By John Cassidy By Andy Borowitz.

By Richard Wilbur The New Yorker, May 17 , 1952P. 36 Founded on rock and facing the night-fouled sea View Article By Miranda Carter By Amos Barshad By George Packer By Doreen St. Félix.

25The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.

"There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equality will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind are chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride".

Having started life founded on the Rock, it has become one".

Where a dam is founded on solid rock, a simple downward projection of concrete into the rock will generally suffice to cut off seepage and eliminate uplift pressures.

In the meantime, Stephen Harper is responding to reporters with claims of innocence, founded on the rock of solid ignorance and bland dismissal.

In an impassioned book, Stephen Law argues, as Kant did, that moral consciousness is founded on the rock of human reason, and that children need to be taught from the start to think critically about moral judgments.

Partly because Ludovico's claim was shaky, Milan was under frequent siege by rival powers, and Leonardo offered him skills — "I have methods for destroying any fortress or redoubt, even if it is founded on solid rock" — that seem both opportunistically savvy and fantastical, rather like the drawings.

These bridges are assumed straight, founded on rigid rock and only the longitudinal response is considered.