Sentences with phrase «rest upon some ground»

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The cosmology of a people, its common sense, is thus foundational for it, the solid ground upon which its meanings, its presumptions about reality and its sense of purpose, rest.

Thus defined, it is not a mere belief, but a part of the empirical ground in the life of the community upon which sound belief of whatever kind must rest.

At present the ice sheet is grounded on underwater islands, which insulate some of the ice from the melting effect of the seawater upon which the rest of the sheet floats.

Every structure relies upon the firm and balanced grounding of its base points; a yoga pose rests upon that same fundamental.

«We know that the success of early education rests on its quality, but quality itself depends upon the educators and leaders on the ground.

However, this is yet another inflation - protection belief that rests upon shaky ground.

Here, densely colored shapes bisect, rest upon, and turn into one another, creating an elegant and formal interplay atop a ground of heavily worked graphite.

Recovery against the Minister in this case rests upon narrower ground, characterized by Aylesworth J. A. in the Court of Appeal as: