Sentences with phrase «rock the foundation of»

It would rock the foundations of their belief system.

It takes a special kind of stupid to turn discontent over an ill - thought and mean - spirited policy into a crisis that rocks the foundations of the Mother of all Parliaments.

It will rock the foundation of physics,» says Stephen Parke of Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois.

Over lunch at a café in Los Alamos, he talks excitedly about the mission and whether its discoveries might rock the foundations of physics.

Last week, the OPERA experiment rocked the foundations of physics when it reported subatomic particles called neutrinos apparently breaking the light - speed barrier (see ««Light - speed» neutrinos point to new physical reality»).

The recent discovery of a fascinating new hominid species in the central African country of Chad rocks the foundation of the human family tree as we know it.

And as Gaddis follows a series of leads across the continent, he approaches a shocking revelation - one which will rock the foundations of politics from London to Moscow...

As if these existential conundrums weren't enough to rock the foundations of Julia and Jacob's marriage, a colossal earthquake of a more literal variety (magnitude 7.6) hits the motherland and Israel is besieged — by her unfriendly neighbors and by circumstances even the ablest governments might find difficult to control.

Usually a death will rock the foundations of the business, thereby necessitating a buyout of some kind in the form of a buy - sell agreement to be discussed shortly.

This is going to rock the foundations of the industry.

King of the Rumour Mill, Geno, the same guy that brings us all the most up - to - date rumors on the Nintendo NX, known for rocking the foundations of the internet with his information on Call of Duty: Bloodlines and for bringing us news on Pokemon X & Y long before they were announced has found new information that seems to point at Luigi's Mansion 3 coming to the Nintendo NX as a launch title that will also help demonstrate the capabilities of Nintendo's upcoming console that will be something visually stunning.

Geno, the same guy that brought you the best and most up - to - date rumors on the Nintendo NX, rocked the foundations of the internet with his Call of Duty: Bloodlines information, tipped you off on a 3D engine utilizing Pokémon game that came packed with a new Pokémon type way before X

It should face many challenges that might rock the foundations of the rule of law, such as smart contracts, A.I. regulation and code - as - law issues.

Infidelity can rock the foundation of any marriage.

EFT is often successful even when problems are long - standing, couples are on the brink of divorce, or a betrayal has rocked the foundation of a relationship.

Not exact matches

How to build a US$ 100 - million global media empire on a foundation of rock star living and canny business sense.

KEY members of the Eastern Regional Council of the Chamber of Minerals and Energy have thrown their weight behind advanced mining rock mechanics research by becoming foundation sponsors of a professorship in this area.

The Stock Market Crash of October 1987 is indelible in the minds of most veteran investors as a «Financial Tsunami» that came out of nowhere — which rocked Wall Street to its foundations.

«But even more than Christ being the Rock — the foundation of His ecclesia (the Body of Christ and His followers), Christ would build His ecclesia on a specific principle — the principle that God would teach His followers directly.»

While not being the biggest South Park fan, I must admit that such talk of «rock» as important in the way that you had to be there makes me want to knock on walls like a Cartman version of an Orkin man, and look for hippies in order to keep them from eating out the foundation of anything that makes one wish to be big without taking the hard shots of inevitability.

the rock / faith is the foundation of Christs church....

Peter was one of twelve foundation stones and Jesus was and is the Rock.

Beneath the Rock of the shrine is a cave with a hole in the top, which is almost undoubtedly the foundation of the Altar of Burnt Offering of the Jewish Temple — the cave being «the hollow or pit... under the altar» which gathered the blood from the sacrificed lambs together with the water from ablutions.

The cardinal number of a given class is ordinarily thought of as a property of the class, but the attempt so to define cardinal number would rock the «Principia» to its foundations.

There are no knots in the mighty cable of our Messianic belief, which, fastened to a rock on Sinai, stretches to a still invisible peg anchored in the foundations of the world.

Most often, we struggle more with getting the huge rocks and boulders out of the way rather than finding a solid foundation upon which to build.

Firm foundation of His rock of Truth.

To pick some random examples: In the 12th century, Peter Abelard, after a life of tragedy and tribulation, concludes his account of his own faith by saying, «The storm may rage but I am unshaken, though the winds may blow they leave me unmoved, for the rock of my foundation stands firm.»

But the foundation is something you lay down on top of the rock.

As the first member of the body of Christ, Peter is the rock or foundation for the building up of the church, the cell to which all other cells are attached in the growth of that body.

To «abide» means to remain in and not depart from, and this we do as we ask Him to satisfy us in the morning with His steadfast love that we may rejoice and be glad all our days (Psalm 90:14), fixing our eyes on Jesus, who is Himself the very Word of God on which we meditate and build the foundation of our lives as a rock enduring the storms (Matthew 7:24 - 27).

All the best spiritual writers of the Church place the sacraments at the top of the list of a foundation for the contemplative way, but few of us build higher on this rock than we find convenient.

We are often exhorted by scientists and philosophers alike to accept the material given to us by sense perception as though it is the rock - bottom foundation of our knowledge of the physical world, Simultaneously we are told to refrain from coloring neutral sense data over with our subjective wishes and teleological desires.

Dynamite blasts needed to splinter rock strata are so strong they crack the foundations and walls of houses.

I wonder how much gold was in the cracks of the foundation that the Dome of the Rock was also built on?

The rock, many would say, is the faith that Peter displayed to Jesus and is upon which the foundation of the church rests.

The Derek Lewis Foundation is an independent foundation in Little Rock, Ark., that is dedicated to supporting a healthier community through a variety of services, programs and sponsorships.

Playing at the Emirates in front of a handful of away supporters only would be such a huge shock to the management (and our players who also need a kick in the backside) that the entire would rock the foundations (with the help of media).

The foundations of the club are rock solid — academy, stadium, financial strength (lack of debt!)

He's a lot better than Gabriel and is 26 years old he's a rock and kos is getting older now and a back 3 of kos, van dijk, holding is a solid foundation

A rock - solid defence has been the foundations upon which City's encouraging campaign has been built upon, however their impressive string of clean sheets, with City keeper Joe Hart having kept four shut - outs in City's previous five home clashes, will come under serious threat on Saturday when the buoyant Tangerines of Blackpool come to town aiming to score in their fourth successive away encounter.

That's a rock solid foundation of society, no matter how you see it.

The events of the May 5 exercise that led to the aborted primary rocked the party to its foundation.

«When I first appeared before you as your County Executive, I laid out for you a vision that we have implemented year by year — to build a region of innovation, to develop a culture of transformation, and to establish a rock - solid fiscal foundation without which no plan can succeed.

Howard Kopel (R - Lawrence), who spearheaded the bill, said BDS is «layered on a rock solid foundation of anti-Israeli, and unfortunately, anti-Semitic sentiment.»

Labour has failed in its attempt to guarantee a rock solid foundation of Labour support as evidenced in the rise of the SNP and Plaid to power in the devolved governments and has left itself wide open to a triumphant Alex Salmond and his populist broadsides.

When you do achieve something big and surprising — the kind of shocking, foundation - rocking science that wins Nobel Prizes — there's a good chance you'll encounter resistance from those whose research you're overturning, says Daniel Shechtman, a materials science professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

Columns of the steel - braced frame are tethered to the foundation by viscous damping and steel - yielding devices that allow the building to rock during a quake.

To enable a three - story building to rock, the columns of the braced frame are not anchored to the building foundation, but tethered to the foundation by dampers and steel - yielding devices.

Construction projects, which sift through tremendous amounts of dirt and rock while digging foundations or laying roads, are an especially rich source of these happy accidents.