5 sentences with “cement”

To build is to construct. A house is built with bricks and cement.

The decisive breakthrough in lighthouse construction was due to the invention of an Englishman, John Smeaton, who in 1759 developed a cement that could set in water. Bonfires were the source of light until the 18th century.

To get an appointment to a particular post within the party, other party members had to go through Stalin. He shrewdly used this fact to cement political relations and influence, so that at Lenin's death he was well positioned to seize power.

In the end, a biography of Michelangelo written by a friend helped to cement the idea that there was an important distinction between mere craftsmen and true artists, the latter temperamental and mercurial but possessed of genius. Thus the whole idea of the artist as an ingenious social outsider derives in part from Michelangelo's life.

At the same time, the plan would work "to promote the increasing respectability of the American name; to answer the claims of justice; to restore the ownership of land to its due value; to provide new resources both to agriculture and commerce; to cement more closely the union of the states; to add to their security against foreign attack; to establish public order on the basis of an upright and liberal policy".