The belligerent and headline - grabbing rhetoric of the commander - in - chief and his propensity to choose short - term, tactical wins over the incremental execution of the long - term priorities often overshadow the more or less solid intellectual foundations of Trump's foreign policy. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
Instead of stretching out the action, slowly enhancing Lucy's abilities with each passing percentile, Besson lingers too long in the beginning, laying an unnecessary intellectual foundation for the nonsense to follow. (popoptiq.com)
While charter schools lacked clear theoretical justification, vouchers rested firmly on the impressive market - based intellectual foundation provided by Nobel laureate Milton Friedman. (educationnext.org)