Sentence examples for fundamental plank from inspiring English sources

They didn't want to think of themselves as having a kind of reliance on the state … It became a fundamental plank of the kind of 'British values' culture".

That tragedy may explain Cohle's morbid worldview, though to me it seems such a fundamental plank of his character that it's difficult to imagine him behaving in any other way.

Clegg talks about "use it or lose it" paternity leave, which is seen as a fundamental plank of parenting rights in countries such as Sweden: but what he doesn't take into account is that Sweden has much more generous parental leave pay, as well as interchangeable rights to take it.

A fundamental plank of the British criminal justice system, amply demonstrated over the past nine weeks at Southwark Crown Court, is the presumption of innocence until guilt is proven beyond reasonable doubt, and so it seems with Llong's interpretation of this aspect of the decision review system.

Take, for instance, copyright law: a fundamental plank of the economy as we know it, hammered out since about the 18th Century and one that basically doesn't make sense in a world of Pirate Bay and album leaks.

"What," I continued my cross-examination, "are the fundamental planks of your platform?" "We believe in a healthy mind in a healthy body.

With Betsy DeVos almost certain to be confirmed by the Senate as the next secretary of education, fundamental planks of public education could begin to be dismantled.

The memo drew a red line beneath the fundamental planks of the bill that are not for changing: GP consortiums, an independent commissioning board to oversee them, every hospital to become a foundation trust, and Healthwatch and primary care trusts to be abolished by 2013.

In not advocating a cap on EU immigrants or an "emergency brake" – both a rebuttal of one of the fundamental planks of the European Union, the free flow of labour – Cameron indicated that he had heeded the warnings from Germany to avoid a position that would curtail this country's EU renegotiations before they even commenced.

A fundamental tool is Ballʼs solution of the complex plank problem which implies that certain sets are 1-weakly closed.

At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Governor Casey asked to present a minority report opposing the party's plank on abortion that declared "reproductive choice" a "fundamental right" deserving government financing.