firm foundation
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffirmandfoundation
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firm
adjective
uk/fɜːm/us/fɝːm/
not soft but not ...
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foundation
noun
uk/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən/us/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən/
an occasion when an organization, state, etc. ...
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(Definition offirmandfoundationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A real understanding of such issues is impossible without first having afirmfoundationin the history of the economies that are undergoing these transitions.
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One of the motivation of this paper is to make afirmfoundationto study these interactions.
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Recently, however, a number of theoretical and empirical studies have addressed the issue, providing afirmfoundationfor future research.
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This progress will certainly accelerate in the future, and the basis of this progress is afirmfoundationof the understanding of normal development.
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Although it would provide afirmfoundationfor practitioners wishing to become trainers, it is discouraging to find so few references to theory and research.
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Others view the new political set-up as the free association of formerly subjugated peoples, the onlyfirmfoundationfor a democratic, sturdy and stable state.
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These data place the current view on afirmfoundation.
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Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on thefirmfoundationof unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built.
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Coupled with explicit tracking of the tumour radius this puts our model on afirmfoundation, leading potentially to quantitati e analysis.
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As yet, exercise prescription during pregnancy does not have afirmfoundationin scientific fact.
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Declarative programming, in the wide sense, should have afirmfoundationin logic.
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In general, then, the results of the model provide a fairlyfirmfoundationfor testing whether competition mediates the relationship between party control and expenditure change.
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It is important to know our past, so we can understand our present and hence embark on our future with afirmfoundationat our feet.
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Time taken over these preliminaries is usually time very well spent, and can form afirmfoundationfor the key task of asking questions relating to the research topic itself.
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Overall, the report gives us afirmfoundationon which to build.
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We were told that the finances of the administration connected with unemployment were going to be put on afirmfoundation.
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They provide afirmfoundationfor assessing what people can afford to pay in a coherent and equitable way.
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We believe that by starting cautiously we shall build afirmfoundationfor the long-term future of this important new venture.
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Children need stability and afirmfoundationupon which to build their lives.
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