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foundation

The foundation of something is the basic ideas or work behind it. These early inventions laid the foundations of modern radio technology. Her education gave her a solid foundation in all the major subjects. The foundation of a building is the solid base that is under it and that supports it. They dug solid foundations, spending a lot of time pouring concrete into four pits. A foundation is an organisation that collects money to do good things. The Open Software Foundation has opened up laboratories to test software. The foundation of a group, business, country, etc. is the act of starting it. The company has double in size every year since its foundation. Foundation is the first layer of cream or makeup. Dot the foundation over the face-on the nose, the cheeks, the chin and spread working from the face outwards.

foundation

the basis on which something is grounded there is little foundation for his objections an institution supported by an endowment (= base, foot) lowest support of a structure it was built on a base of solid rock he stood at the foot of the tower (= grounding) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge he lacks the foundation necessary for advanced study a good grounding in mathematics (= foundation garment) a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body (= initiation) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new she looked forward to her initiation as an adult the foundation of a new scientific society (= basis) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture

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It is foolish of you to build a castle in the air while forgetting to drive in pilings for its foundation.
Our company had the fortieth anniversary of its foundation.
The rumor was without foundation.
The rumor had no foundation in fact.
This house has a solid foundation.
It was Socrates who laid the foundation of logic.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Mathematics are the foundation of all sciences.
All of your accusations are without foundation. She's innocent and we're going to prove it.
The revenues go to a charitable foundation.
The skyscraper was built on a solid foundation.
Columns provide a solid foundation.
This investigation can act as a foundation for more comprehensive research.
Students have a holiday on Foundation Day.
The foundation of this house is beginning to weaken.
This research was made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Movie subtitles

And in a competition for control of the Asian spice trade, capitalism was born and, with it, the foundation for a world dominated by Western civilization.
Proceeds to the Cancer Recovery Foundation.
All the proceeds from Declan's last book go to the Cancer Recovery Foundation, right?
Your distress is not without foundation.
The restoration took place in 2001 in collaboration with the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin, the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, Milan. and the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, Wiesbaden.
The restoration of FRAU IM MOND was carried out in 2000 by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation in Wiesbaden, based on the camera negative from the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv in Berlin.
He built his home on its very foundation.
Truth is the foundation. on which the power of the press stands in the world.
Maintaining the health of our farmers is the primary foundation. for the prosperity of industry. for German business and for foreign exports.
If this man is permitted to carry out his plan, repercussions will be felt. that will rock the foundation of our entire governmental systems.
My whole foundation.
Can you tell me the exact width of the foundation. on which these piers are resting, and the depth?
That's the only secure foundation.
The lawyer for the Foundation.
In the end of 1950 he came to work at the Dutch Foundation for Radio-emission from the Sun and the Milky Way Galaxy.
The foundation of the American home.
Perhaps the foundation of a now career.
If this man carries out his plan, repercussions will rock the foundation of our entire government.
Against this barefaced immorality that undermines the foundation of our state finally a barrier has to be erected!
That's the foundation of my business and the secret of my success.
Our new one-piece foundation garment.
Our new one-piece foundation garment. Zips up the back, and no bone.
Blackstone's Commentaries Foundation of Common Law and Modern Jurisprudence.
Take this as your foundation and nothing can ever upset you.
Another example: again, it was a German, who through his scientific research, laid the foundation for. our modern day agricultural chemistry.
The Ounce Foundation for the Elevation of American Morals.
Mathilda, I shall appoint you first-crusading vice president of the Ounce Foundation.
That nut is the Ounce Foundation for the E. Of the A.M.
The Ounce Foundation.
Don't forget the Ounce Foundation for the Elevation of American Morals.
I found the first object for our foundation to crush.
The Ounce Foundation shall run him out of town.
You know Horace's heart and soul is with the Ounce Foundation.
Hooray for the Ounce Foundation For the Elevation of Celebration.
But, Ezra, think of the Ounce Foundation.
You know what I think of the Ounce Foundation?

News and current affairs

My hosts, the Kweku Hutchful Foundation, invited me with a different question in mind: How can Ghanaian leaders be developed?
It is also true, however, that such training does not provide an adequate foundation for addressing the more abstract, but profoundly important, questions that ultimately must guide global policy and decision-making.
So, at its foundation, only one powerful body was introduced, the Security Council on which the world's great military powers sat.
Suppose that as long as a version of this deal is the only game in town, the creeping physical expansion of the Israeli state and the demographic expansion of Israeli Arabs will continue to erode its foundation.
Since 1983, the proportion of funding for mathematical and computational research that comes from the Biological Division of the US National Science Foundation has increased about 50-fold.
To promote democracy and open government might be the ultimate solution, but it stands on a shaky conceptual foundation of untested assumptions about the nature of the world and diverse cultures.
A half-century after the foundation of a common market and 15 years after the launch of the common currency, Europe still lacks a united police force and a single foreign policy.
If so, the foundation for a real dialogue to defuse the struggle over Kashmir may be possible.
These contracts are the most ancient and remain the foundation of social relationships in China today.
As a recent Quilliam Foundation report concludes, Daesh plays on the youthful desire to be part of something worthwhile; it is the organization's utopian appeal that is most alluring to new recruits.
But on examining his foundation's website ( www.laf.org ) and his writings, a nagging question remains: Did the same tenacity that enabled Armstrong to win seven Tour de France bicycle races help cure his cancer?
The Gates Foundation can fund action and research.
Although recognizing that much still divides us, major common goals do provide a solid foundation for future cooperation.
I established a nonprofit foundation there in 1989, two years before the country became independent in 1991.
The Civil War revealed the centrality of a common foundation of morality to Hamilton's approach to debt and public finance.
Laying a foundation for future engagement requires ongoing commitment and effort that goes beyond mere publicity.
Some states may be big and powerful enough to get away with behaving badly, but winning respect for behaving well is a much stronger foundation for economic and political success.
If such a consensus can be forged, however, it will provide a foundation for further collaboration in building a pan-Asian order based on consent, not military might.
For example, China should use its current high savings to build up the country's infrastructure and speed up urbanization, thereby laying a firmer foundation for future development.
Human capital - not natural resources, production capacity, or financial reserves - should constitute the foundation of Russian and European development policies.
By making these commitments, the MEF leaders, whose countries account for more than three-quarters of global emissions, would lay a firm foundation for success in Copenhagen.
The Tony Blair Faith Foundation's schools program has made an important start in this respect.
Instead, the foundation of religious politics is a shared belief, imposed from above, in ideological orthodoxy.
But the rule needed to form the foundation of such a network must obviously adhere to international law, and the ARF meeting's final declaration clearly reflected this concern.

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