Steve Jobs

It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

American Businessman

Gordon Brown

The British economy of the future must be built not on the shifting sands of boom and bust, but on the bedrock of prudent and wise economic management for the long term. It is only these firm foundations that we can raise Britain's underlying economic performance.

British Politician

Hillary Clinton

And I believe we should strengthen unions which have formed the bedrock of a strong middle class. It should be easier to bargain collectively. That's not only fair, it makes workers more productive, it strengthens our economy.

American Politician

Campbell Brown

While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it's critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day - and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.

American Journalist

August Wilson

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

American Playwright

Ajit Pai

You may never need them, but if you do, they'll be there. It's that bedrock promise of protection that makes our public safety officials the unsung heroes that they are.

American Public Servant

Patrick Leahy

A bedrock principle of our justice system is ensuring a fair day in court, something that is especially important for children who cannot advocate for themselves.

Edward M. Lerner

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

American Author

Andy Beshear

Voting is the bedrock of our democracy and we have a moral responsibility to protect and expand the right to vote - for everyone.

Lynn Flewelling

Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight.

Often used in discussions about Earth sciences and landscape formations.

Geological Usage

Can refer to the process of exposing the solid rock that is usually hidden.

Uncover And Reveal

Metaphorically, implies something very strong and reliable.

Solid Foundation

Used to express the importance or foundational role of a concept.

Figurative Importance

May be used to describe fundamental principles that support societies.

Societal Core

When used figuratively, it is never about physical objects.

Nonliteral Use

 you must also set standards and hold those in your spheres of influence accountable for delivering unhealthy food for the most vulnerable. Third, we must support small- and medium-sized enterprises. In the food ecosystem, small- and medium-sized enterprises are the bedrock of our economy.

The Future of the Food...

 working really hard to keep each other safe and protected. And digital awareness-raising is great, because changing minds is the bedrock of changing politics. But movements today have to move beyond participation at great scale very fast and figure out how to think together collectively,

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 and the protection of minority rights, as specified in constitutions and legal statutes. Taken together, these ideals propose that tolerance and institutions that protect us from intolerance, are the bedrock of a functional and diverse democratic society.

The rise of modern...

 in liquid form year after year. The question is, what happens next? Does the water stay there forever? It could. Or does it find a way out to reach the global ocean? One possible way for the water to reach the bedrock and from there the ocean

What's hidden under the...

 to look at the top of the ice inside the internal structure of the ice and also all the way onto the bedrock to fill in knowledge about the Earth's cryosphere the Earth's ice cover that would have otherwise have been lost between the

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 broke the bad news when she came in and said we've got problems we had huge problems there had been virtually zip snowpack in the upper basin so obviously conservation was the bedrock we sat down with all the communities in southern

The Water Crisis PIPE...

 But those aren't the things that stuck with me or guided me when I stopped being a midwife and started other jobs. What stuck with me was this bedrock belief that each one of us comes into this world with a unique worth.

Say your truths and seek...

 but in fact, it goes down below sea level another couple thousand feet. So there's a wall of ice a couple thousand feet deep going down to bedrock if the glacier's grounded on bedrock, and floating if it isn't.

James Balog: Time-lapse...

 gonna be the bedrock of these new identities keep it all the way real with y'all I don't know but I'm happy happy to assist how I can in the search for answers

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 the ace exposed the hard bedrock called schist solid enough for sinking deep foundations to support tall buildings

Bedrock