Now, Google is taking on the very foundation of its own existence — the Web browser.
"It is blatantly unconstitutional and it's an attack on the very foundation of the United States," Marci Hamilton, a law professor at Yeshiva University, told the Associated Press.
But opponents of the death penalty took heart from a meticulously researched and unusually passionate dissent from Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who openly invited a new constitutional assault on the very foundation of capital punishment.
Meanwhile, agriculture becomes dependent on foreign corporations for the very foundation of agriculture.
The following day he waddled deeper into the muck as he doubled down on his challenge to the very foundation of our democracy, "I'll totally accept the results of this great and historic election -- if I win!" The Donald doesn't just quack, he tweets as well.
Like us, you know that religious fanaticism and national extremism are a perfect recipe for domestic instability and violence, for bitterness and ultimately for the disintegration of the very foundations of coexistence based on tolerance and mutual acceptance".
The implication of their version of the war on Christmas – sold by politically-minded religious conservatives, talk radio rabble-rousers, Bill O'Reilly and, it seems, the entirety of Fox News – is that they're making a last stand at the Alamo of American Christianity against humanists, atheists and a host of mealy-mouthed "liberals" bent on destroying the very foundation of the Republic itself.
"What this is is an assault on the very foundations and ideals of our country.
The 18th century, with its Rationalist attack on the very foundations of Catholicism, weakened the French concern for Gallicanism, and the Revolution left it enervated.
Its attack on the very foundations of democracy disenfranchises each of us, no matter what work sector, class, or "community" we come from, and whether we are on the left or on the right or somewhere in the centre.
Many of Abbott's difficulties in the first half of 2014 arose not only because he lied about his intentions, but because this lie embodied an attack on the very foundations of our collective life, as expressed in Medicare and other measures.
