Sentence examples for were cornerstone from inspiring English sources
noun
A ceremonial stone set at the corner of a building, joining two exterior walls, and often inscribed with the starting and completion dates of construction, the name of the architect and owner, and other details.
- The cornerstone on the Flatiron Building is set on the Fifth Avenue facade.
The two are active in the life of the College of Engineering and were cornerstone benefactors to CITRIS (the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society), a multi-campus institute headquartered at Berkeley Engineering.
And there is concern, too, about whether what once were cornerstone American goals in Afghanistan — establishing reliable security forces, hobbling the insurgency, curbing endemic corruption, securing enduring rights for women and minorities — are now unrealistic given the looming deadline.
It is Cornerstone Promotion, not Cornerstone Promotions.
Spins in solids are cornerstone elements of quantum spintronics1.
Executable specifications and simulations are cornerstone to system design flows.
Finding optimal cost-effective treatment is cornerstone for every medical system.
Furthermore, DNA damaging drugs are cornerstone of cancer therapy.
All three are cornerstones of their teams.
"These rights are cornerstones of democracy.
Information systems are cornerstones of modern organizations.
Metamodels are cornerstones of various metamodeling activities.
