8 sentences with “foundations”

The roots of this tree have spread too much and are affecting the foundations of the house.

Richelieu deserves much of the credit for laying the foundations of absolutism in France.

A project is already underway to place 600 tonnes of lead at the top of its foundations to prevent it from collapsing.

Unknowingly, with his experience, Jean Valnet laid the foundations on which this alternative discipline of contemporary medicine, aromatherapy, grew.

While the agricultural revolution laid the foundations for growth and the cities took advantage of it, other factors led to the economic boom of this period.

For the first decades of its existence socialism was less a movement with economic than ethical foundations. It had economic arguments to make, of course, but those arguments were based on moral or ethical claims.

However, the Mongols are entirely relevant to the history of Western civilisation, both because they devastated the kingdoms of the Middle East at the time and because they eventually laid the foundations for the history of early Russia.

The Saint-Simonians did not inspire a popular movement, but some members of the movement went on to play an influential role in French industry and helped lay the intellectual foundations for enterprises such as the creation of the Suez Canal between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.