Sentence examples for over a foundation from inspiring English sources

The movie weirdly pours treacle over a foundation of despair, and any genuine emotion drops out of it.

It feels like some of the reforms that have been passed, like health care, have been done in a very political manner that has papered over a foundation that is corrupt".

Given the deep distrust between political groups — organized almost exclusively along sectarian lines — lawmakers said that an extra month of work would have only painted a veneer of productivity over a foundation of dysfunction.

Taking Over a Foundation After 12 years as president of Cooper Union, JOHN JAY ISELIN has moved to Columbia University to become president of the Marconi International Fellowship Foundation.

Mr Pujol kept his money hidden from the tax authorities while presiding over a foundation that specialised in ethics.Mr Rajoy has sometimes downplayed Spanish corruption as a matter of a few bad apples, but the wave of arrests has forced him to promise action.

It's the kind of majestic pop chorale that has been a Flaming Lips staple, but this one is deliberately set amid emptiness: no drumbeat, just watery chords that waver slightly over a foundation of sustained distortion, keeping the song moody and unmoored.

After his death at the age of 88 in 1986, the estate was handed over to a foundation charged with conserving the work and reputation of the artist and the setting in which his work was created.

Yet they also feel that passively turning over billions to a foundation of the sort left behind by Rockefeller or Ford is a cop-out.

Endesa has turned the land over to a foundation, with orders to preserve it.

Eugene Pfeifer III, a Little Rock property owner, asked the State Supreme Court to prohibit the city from turning over his land to a foundation that is building former President Bill Clinton's presidential library.

Trump envisages a structure of steel and precast-concrete panels that is between thirty-five and fifty feet tall ("There's no ladder going over that"), has a foundation deep enough to prevent tunnels, is a thousand miles long — half the length of the border, because physical barriers divide the rest — and costs up to twelve billion dollars.