Sentence examples for instead of bedrock from inspiring English sources

In excavating the site they hit mud instead of bedrock, which led to long delays; by the time the 54 units were ready for occupancy, the demand for high-end condominiums had softened.

Test borings found large seams of soft material instead of the bedrock that was expected just below the surface.

In the early part of the last century progressives, as well as the Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt administrations, viewed the sanctity of property rights as impediments to progress instead of as the bedrock of entrepreneurial capitalism.

A problem for Millennium is that its foundation stretches only to a layer of sand, just above a layer of clay, instead of farther down into bedrock, said Ron Klemencic, chairman and chief executive of Magnusson Klemencic Associates, the structural engineering company for Salesforce Tower.

The use of black powder instead of dynamite reduced the risk of bedrock damage, but it also increased the time needed to complete the tunnels.

Instead of surrendering to the present hysteria by endorsing the dilution of bedrock American values as "realistic," your editorial should have held the president to his words: "We have these core ideals that we observe — even when it's hard".

Nuclide concentrations in these surfaces are probably controlled by bedrock erosion rates instead of discrete glacial events.

Instead of some hidden core of personal insecurity, he comes with an apparent inner core of bedrock self assurance.

Such shifting values rely instead on the bedrock of freedom to sustain the dynamic bonds of the social contract it upholds.

"We see our first glimpse of bedrock.

It is covered by 25-55 m of bedrock.