• "Before the end of this year we laid a foundation stone of expanding the brewery to ten-fold of whatever we have now, " she says.

    CNN: Female beer boss who took on drinks giant

  • Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute director Prof Mike Stratton said the results were "remarkable" and would "stand as a foundation stone for human biology for many years".

    BBC: Detailed map of genome function

  • The AAA government debt rating is a foundation stone of the world financial system, and when it shifts, even a little, other things may shift as well.

    FORBES: No Default As Long As The Fed Has A Printing Press

  • In addition to reestablishing a wonderful conversation with strong friends and allies, I wanted to make sure that everybody in our country, but everybody around the world, understands that the transatlantic alliance remains a cornerstone, a foundation stone for American security.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and Prime Minister Tusk Press Conference

  • And it was an extremist Jewish group's unfulfilled threat to lay a symbolic foundation stone for a new temple that apparently sparked the demonstrations on Sunday.

    ECONOMIST: Unholy mess in the holy city

  • In June the county, whose tyre, petrochemical and paper-making industries have made it much richer than Huimin, held a foundation-stone ceremony for its own Sun Tzu theme park.

    ECONOMIST: China abroad

  • AD, the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur consulted a Persian astrologer called Nawbakht to find a conjunction of the planets favourable to laying the foundation stone for a new capital.

    ECONOMIST: The Star of Bethlehem

  • Another foundation stone is fixing a health insurance system that works better for insurance industry than it does for the American people. (Applause.) I do not quit.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds a Town Hall in New Hampshire

  • We have laid the foundation stone, at last, for a modern Britain, in which the liberal ideal will be stronger and more relevant than it has been since the very earliest years of this century.

    BBC: News | UK Politics | Paddy Ashdown's speech

  • The first thing I bought when I was asked to follow the Millennium Centre's foundation stone on its journey to Cardiff was a packet of sea-sickness tablets.

    BBC: No sailing in sight for slate

  • The Act in its final form represented a turning point in the emergence of disabled people from the shadows of neglect and indifference, and was the foundation stone of Alf's subsequent parliamentary career.

    BBC: Alf Morris, the 'quiet revolutionary'

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