Sentence examples for material foundation from inspiring English sources

But they also celebrate ideas, which are the true touchstones of our way of life, more than any material foundation.

This bit of commercial intrigue provides the fairly banal material foundation on which Mr. Nolan's phantasmagorical world is built.

At the moment, the material foundation of journalism isn't cracking because readers are going elsewhere, but because the advertising market has shifted its interest to issues of attention.

"Only by promoting both healthy and fast economic development can we secure a strong material foundation for the great revival of the Chinese nation".

Homer allows Chapman to be aerial and to skim the waves, but also gives him a material foundation in the axle which floats above the water, heavy matter lifting itself towards air.

Sometimes the institution of marriage stabilizes feckless men, and helps them become real fathers and providers, but sometimes it doesn't — and the material foundation available to the couple can make all the difference.

Accordingly, in the 1390s he developed a program to strengthen the material foundations of his rule.

He described the material foundations of culture in Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaft, 2 vol. (1854 55; "General Science of Culture").

The Communist Party coordinated all public activities, justifying its monopoly of power as necessary to create the material foundations for the building of communism.

Her unwise church policy was matched by an obscurely motivated submissive policy at home, which, by unwarranted cession of holdings of the crown, weakened the material foundations of the king's power and, in addition, encouraged the rapacity of the nobles.

Testing his concepts, Braudel produced a giant, three-volume study of the world between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, based on a three-tiered arrangement of its material foundations, economic functioning, and capitalist developments, Civilisation matérielle et capitalisme, XVe-XVIIIe siècle (vol. 1, 1967; vol. 2 3, 1979; Civilization and Capitalism, 15th 18th Century).