Sentence examples for fountainhead from inspiring English sources

It has also spurred many of them to look more closely at their business processes, the fountainhead of their raw accounting data.At a discussion in April chaired by the SEC, the act was said to have had a "chilling effect" on the relationship between managers and auditors.

THE Saudi kingdom has long been a fountainhead of jihadist radicalism, with martyrdom-seekers going on one-way tickets to such places as Chechnya, Iraq and the Twin Towers in America.

One of these, seemingly justified by the Amman bombing, is that Iraq has turned from being a sponge for jihadist violence into a fountainhead that threatens the region.Another is that Iraq's Sunni minority, by backing the insurgents, has isolated itself and paved the way for Iran, whose government is now in the hands of revolutionary Shia radicals, to expand its influence.

Ancient Athens may be the fountainhead of modern democratic thinking, but Mr Ober shows it is a much stranger fountainhead than most of its modern admirers imagine.AMERICA IN BLACK AND WHITE.By Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom.Simon & Schuster; 704 pages; $32.50IN 1944 Gunnar Myrdal argued that the problem of race is the defining "American dilemma".

ON AUGUST 25th, Chinese traders found themselves at the fountainhead of innovation.

Photographers caught her at the book launch of the Swedish version of "The Fountainhead" (another Randian classic).

The country as a whole has seen a spurt in microcredit, overtaking, in the number of borrowers, Bangladesh, the global movement's fountainhead.

But in the Middle East, the fountainhead of political Islam, a gentler form of Islamic modernism seems to be gaining ground.

Local cadres sitting on plastic chairs stoically endure the sodden spectacle.Huimin county regards itself as the birthplace of Sun Tzu and thus the fountainhead of an ancient wisdom which, officials believe, can help persuade the world of China's attractiveness.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the modern fountainhead of such freedoms adopted by the United Nations in 1948, guarantees both civil-political and socio-economic rights.

Dale Carnegie, the American fountainhead of the modern self-help manual, called it the power of positive thinking.