Sentence examples for lay a cornerstone from inspiring English sources
The phrase "lay a cornerstone" is correct and commonly used in written English
It is typically used when referring to the ceremonial act of placing a cornerstone during the construction of a building or monument. Example: The mayor was honored to lay the cornerstone for the new community center, symbolizing the beginning of a new era for the town.
It is to start construction next summer, not to lay a cornerstone for the first tower during the Republican National Convention.
Away from the recriminations, families of some of the dead crew members gathered today in the military town of Vidyayevo to lay a cornerstone for a memorial to the seamen.
Large units of Israeli police, equipped with riot gear, had entered the Muslim shrine after some Palestinians, roused by the attempt of a tiny messianic Jewish cult to lay a cornerstone for a third Jewish temple, had stoned the Western Wall plaza, the adjacent Jewish holy site.
The year was 1936, and President Roosevelt, Governor Lehman and Mayor La Guardia, along with 7,500 guests, had turned out to lay a cornerstone at Brooklyn College, a W.P.A. project that was under construction on a graceful ivy-covered campus in the heart of Midwood.
This election is meaningful in that it is an election to abolish the privileged class and to lay a cornerstone of the society called "reform".
Letitia Baldrige, the etiquette expert, knows that Ms. Pritchett, Ms. Modisett and anyone else slyly using the economy excuse is tossing out a white lie, and that white lies are a cornerstone of good manners.
Two years later, they held a ceremony to lay the cornerstone with a trowel used by George Washington for the U.S. Capitol construction, according to the Masonic Temple website.
Now is the time to lay the cornerstone for a global strategy to cut and ultimately end carbon emissions.
The president visited Nassau County on Thursday to help lay the cornerstone at a 9/11 memorial, and will accept his nomination for re-election in New York City this summer.
"With the full implementation of this strategy, Iraq will meet the aspirations of its citizens for quality education and lay the cornerstone for a competitive 21st century economy" said Mrs. Marie-Helene Brisknell, the World Bank's Special Representative to Iraq.
With New York officials planning to lay the cornerstone next month for a grand expansion of Pennsylvania Station, federal transportation inspectors are hurriedly preparing a report about potentially disastrous fire and safety conditions in 16 miles of aging tunnels that serve the station.
