"vital foundation" is a valid phrase in written English.
It implies a necessary starting point for something larger or more complicated. For example, "A commitment to education is a vital foundation for developing a prosperous society."
The shadow business secretary, Angela Eagle, said: "UK steel, a vital foundation industry, is hanging by a thread.
Roy Rickhuss said: "The government needs to get round the table with Tata Steel and the wider industry and implement the measures required to sustain steel making and retain skills and jobs in this vital foundation industry.
One vital foundation stone in the strategy for change is that the police now have a zero-tolerance approach to kerb crawlers (they've made 139 arrests since March 2007), but the women found soliciting - provided they agree to undergo help for their addiction - are not charged.
Locally, the Port Talbot plant is the beating heart of the community and economy, and nationally steel is a vital foundation industry: it is fundamental to the cars that we drive, the homes in which we live, the offices in which we work, and the bridges that we cross.
Especially, an agricultural cooperative is widely considered as a vital foundation that can help smallholder farmers to overcome the constraints that hinder them from taking advantages of their business as it empowers economically weak farmers by enhancing their collective bargaining power and thereby reduces the risks that they face in the market (Woldu et al. 2013).
Good communication builds trust, the vital foundation for a happy marriage.
Schoolyard stuff, unlikely to cause great upset in the ranks of the party that laid the vital foundations for the Good Friday agreement while steadfastly condemning violence from all quarters.
For a young person, having the opportunity to serve – whether it be participating in the Duke of Edinburgh's award scheme, or scouts, or the National Citizen Service – can help lay vital foundations for adult life.
Infrastructure projects are a means to an end, not an end in their own right, and targeted projects such as this are the vital foundations of genuine and sustainable economic activity.
The approach developed provides the vital foundations for an integrated theory of porous film growth on a range of metals in various film-forming electrolytes.
England batsman Ian Bell believes the Test series in New Zealand can lay vital foundations going into back-to-back Ashes contests later this year.
