Sentence examples for original cornerstone from inspiring English sources

George Washington, renowned dancer, president and Freemason, laid the original cornerstone of the US Capitol building.

But despite extensive reconstruction and renovation, the original cornerstone, and any time capsule within, has not been discovered.

One cylinder recounted how Nabonidus (reigned 555 539 bc), the father of Belshazzar and the last king of Babylon, had excavated the temple to its original cornerstone, laid 4,200 years earlier by Naram-Sin, the son of King Sargon of Akkad.

However, the Conservative government in power from 1951 resisted the right of petition to the European court of human rights on the grounds that British common law would come under scrutiny by an international court – a deep irony considering that it was arguable that the Magna Carta was the original cornerstone of both.

Another smaller company would take over Hewlett-Packard's measurement business, an original cornerstone of the company's business that has diminished in importance over the years.

Hydration is the original cornerstone to a healthy lifestyle.

Theodore Roosevelt presided over the ceremony for the laying of the original Law School building cornerstone on April 1 , 1903

It's got handcarved church pews, the same 1906 cornerstone, the original pulpit, the stove.

There are just four original copies of the cornerstone for English law and first document to champion the rights and freedom of the common people – and the best preserved is in Salisbury Cathedral.

Pennsylvania Station and the original Metropolitan Opera House are both cornerstones of the nostalgist's reveries, and the Bottom Line will soon join that august group.

"Cornwall is the cornerstone of the original Liberal Party," Baroness Williams says.