Sentence examples for on its foundations from inspiring English sources

In the same manner, says, "the Lord set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved".

The philosopher Peter Singer described it as "a concept so desirable in its consequences that it is unthinkable to give up, and so shaky on its foundations that it can scarcely be supported".

Indeed, the Brotherhood's top leaders are unlikely to give up on democracy because it is on its foundations – as much as on those of religion — that its claim to rightful authority has come to rest.

The entire building was shaking on its foundations, but through the tremors she spotted a domed cage, hanging in the foyer.

Perhaps trying to ease into a more conciliatory mode ahead of his acceptance speech, Blatter told the convention that FIFA is "shaking on its foundations".

But before Israel closed Gaza off, he would take his children to the remains of his family's old house, to picnic on its foundations.

The imagination of disaster is never far from these pages, and though this house will finally stay on its foundation, it does get swamped by a monsoon-swelled river, and with consequences that are bitter indeed.

His abode was a mobile home, so full of books and pamphlets and other debris that it sagged on its foundation.

It was built on its foundation as a place where you could enjoy the seaside".

In "Apollo's Angels" Ms. Homans writes that she worries about ballet in part because artists today seem "confused" by their inheritance, "unable to build on its foundation yet unwilling to throw it off in favor of a vision of their own".

Except for that one damaged corner, the building still stood, firm on its foundation.