Sentence examples for main foundations from inspiring English sources

This duty to forget rests on two main foundations.

But Slim has increased his charitable giving in recent years by doubling the endowments to his two main foundations to about $8bn.

"Four main foundations and research centers are cited at the beginning of Secrest's acknowledgment section, followed by 19 persons who receive great gratitude," Dan Pinck, an author and former spy, noted in The American Scholar.

Looking back, the 2000 tour was one of the main foundations of the World Cup victory three years later, and if we can say the same after the next global tournament in 2015, we'll all be pretty happy.

Her work, later considered one of the main foundations of various expressions of "queer theory," opened the door — it certainly opened mine — to new ways of reading, understanding and writing about literature.

"The main foundations are there, but it will require a long time and a lot of money," said Mohsen Movahedi, a researcher for the government department charged with rebuilding historic structures.

The CME Group, which has given $22 million to Chicago area schools and charities over the last five years, has stopped making grants through its main foundation, citing the collapse of MF Global Holdings.

Written texts supply the main foundation for these disciplines, and some knowledge of the processes of their transmission is necessary for understanding and control of the scholar's basic materials.

When he delivered his lectures on the "larger hemispheres of the brain," Pavlov declared, "We will hope and patiently await the time when a precise and complete knowledge of our highest organ, the brain, will become our profound achievement and the main foundation of a durable human happiness".

And Bill Clinton now says that, if his wife wins, he will step down from the board of the main foundation, too, and that it will no longer take money from people who are not citizens or permanent residents of the United States, or from corporations.

Over time the program, just one piece of the bill, would open up many new opportunities for foreigners to settle in the United States based on their skills, a shift from the focus on family ties that is the main foundation of the current immigration system.