foundations造句

The foundations of the building have subsided.

Weak foundations caused the house to subside.

The huge lorries shook the foundations of the house.

Problems include blocked drains, sunken foundations and, sometimes, large structural faults.

The symmetry between particles and antiparticles is woven deep into the foundations of physics.

Yet the foundations of Iran's ideological state have got no less rickety since last year's turmoil.

Descartes’ program in the Meditations is to put the edifice ofhuman knowledge upon secure foundations.

Build too weighty a project on those fragile foundations and it will crumble.

More than 180 miles of quarry tunnels snake through the foundations of Paris, nearly all of them off-limits.

Those phases not only highlighted the subjugation of women, they set out to dismantle the foundations of their cages.

Their attack was more or less a philosophical attack, directed at the epistemological foundations of the new science.

Above them the rocks give way to brick, darker in colour than the stone foundations and topped with ramparts, unbroken and lowering.

The plants’ foundations have already been laid, their steel reinforcing bars pointing skyward, on a desolate landscape dominated by thatch-roofed huts and last season’s cornfields.

The initial endowment of the Carnegie Corporation, at $125m ($3 billion in today’s money), exceeded the total value of all American foundations at the time.

Such levels of erosion shake the foundations of sensible land stewardship and exert downstream, transnational consequences on the poorer nations of Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.

That was cranky exaggeration; many changes were felt more than seen, a shift in hopes and expectations that cracked the foundations of patriarchy.

This is a work of utmost importance in that it lays the foundations of logic into mathematics and enables us to use this as a tool to explore the unknown.

For cases like this the system will have a watertight structures called caissons, which are based on the suction-pile technology used to emplace deep-sea moorings and foundations.

As things stand, however, some kind of retrenchment seems possible, particularly since the foundations may be reluctant to allow the bank to raise more outside capital to expand its activities abroad.

The bedrock foundations of gender (divison of labor, social rights) have changed drastically over the past hundred years and I think we’re in the process of reforming marriage to answer those changes.