Sentence examples for principal pillar from inspiring English sources

He treated the church as the principal pillar of his authority, dispatching missionaries throughout his realm.

"Broadband is, was, and will be the principal pillar of the bull case" for Comcast, said Craig Moffett, a senior analyst at Bernstein Research.

Within Europe, France appears to have lost its place as an equal partner to Germany, a disturbing development since for over half a century the Franco-German entente served as the principal pillar of European stability.

To quote Benjamin Franklin, "[f]reedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins".

The reasons for such censorship vary widely from political correctness, safety concerns and bullying to national security and hate crimes but the end result remains the same: the complete eradication of what Benjamin Franklin referred to as the "principal pillar of a free government".

Supporters revere it as one of the principal pillars of the post-war welfare state.

Living the right kind of life has become the target of the 21st century, and there are three principal pillars for health: diet, exercise and sleep.

In spite of his outspoken criticism of king and court, his view of kingship and of the relationship between church and state made him one of the principal pillars of the regime of the Sun King (Louis XIV), carrying Richelieu's policies to their logical conclusion.

I spoke to Kevin Morgan, an insomnia expert, and something he said stayed with me: "Living the right kind of life has become the target of the 21st century," he said, "and there are three principal pillars for health: diet, exercise, and sleep.

The treatment of the regular polyhedra constitutes one of the two principal pillars of HM, Book 5 (chapters 1 2), where the third law is formulated (see Caspar in KGW 6, Nachbericht, p. 497, and Engl. trans. p. xxxiii).

We analyze the metrics and indicators of sustainability used in contemporary research on commodity agriculture to demonstrate that new sustainability indicators continue to be developed rapidly by researchers interested in the three principal pillars of sustainability (environmental, economic, and sociocultural).