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There is no question that undermining the financial foundations of ISIS is an important first step to rolling back the group.

The Houthis have done exactly this and have shaken the already fragile government of Yemen to its foundations.

You can never build a true democracy if you do not have justice as one of its cardinal foundations.

He created a bunch of charitable foundations through which he could direct his campaigns.

To varying degrees, the foundations of your background can help or harm you.

He hardly recognised himself, for, the foundations being shaken, all that was built upon them trembled too.

Those soaring columns held up the very sky, and their foundations made the earth itself swing true.

Society in Rome has been stirred to its foundations, for both the parties were well known.

The Ganges here and there undermines the foundations, and palaces and temples sink into the soft earth or fall entirely down.

Scattergood Baines was not a man to shingle his roof before he built his foundations.

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to foundations, such as: infrastructure, groundwork, support, authority, base, and bedrock.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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