"outstanding foundation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a strong and reliable basis for something. For example: "The foundation of their relationship was outstanding, and it provided a strong base for the couple to grow."
Livingstone, flawed as he was and is, laid some outstanding foundations as mayor: starting Crossrail; helping to capture the Olympics; and modernising the buses and tubes.
The Roman Empire was distinguished not only for its outstanding army the foundation upon which the whole empire rested but also for its accomplishments in intellectual endeavours.
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (30740086, 30870522) and Shenyang Outstanding Talent Foundation to H-Q Wang.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/10/445/prepub This work was partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (30870522) and Shenyang Outstanding Talent Foundation to H-Q Wang.
He has raised millions for his outstanding Turn 2 Foundation which motivates youth to live a healthy productive life and become the leaders of tomorrow.
José Andrés, who this year won the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Chef award, makes a very popular chapulín taco — sautéed shallots, deglazed in tequila; chipotle paste; and Oaxacan grasshoppers, in a hand-made tortilla — at his Washington, D.C., restaurant Oyamel.
While our schools demonstrably provide an outstanding academic and moral foundation for success in life, the somber fact is that two-thirds of our Catholic parents either cannot afford even our modest tuition or otherwise choose not to send their children to our schools.
One is Fast Track, offered by the Robert Bosch Foundation to outstanding female postdocs from within and outside Germany to speed their promotion to senior research roles.
It was from the lectures of the topologist M. H. A. (Max Newmann in that year that he learnt of Gödel's 1931 proof of the formal incompleteness of logical systems rich enough to include arithmetic, and of the outstanding problem in the foundations of mathematics as posed by Hilbert: the "Entscheidungsproblem" (decision problem).
