foundation of society

collocation in English

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foundation
noun
uk
/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən/us
/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən/
an occasion when an organization, state, etc. ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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(Definition offoundationandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These not only represent thefoundationofsocietybut also the key to its future.
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The family is thefoundationofsocietyand the guardian of its standards of conduct.
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Thirdly, we come to the family and home, the veryfoundationofsociety.
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The economy is the veryfoundationofsociety, and public opinion ensures the survival of the regime.
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Its class element is above all its means of fighting for liberation; its humanitarian character is its ethical aspect, thefoundationofsociety; its individualism is the goal of mankind.
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We can see how, at the national level, the economy and foundations of society are weakening.
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I do not believe that we can build a new political framework while the foundations of society are under constant attack.
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Gambling is a cancer in the body politic and, quite as surely, rots the moral foundations of society.
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There is a kind of earthquake tremor under the foundations of society.
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It is absolutely going against the rights of property which have existed practically from the foundations of society.
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It was felt that he was undermining the foundations of society as we knew it.
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But as soon as demonstration becomes violent and unlawful it saps the foundations of society.
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Because you know that it would sap the whole foundations of society, and destroy the basis of property on which society rests.
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It is one of the foundations of society.
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It is absurd to talk of a reform like that in the same breath with revolution, setting class against class, and disturbing the foundations of society.
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This is because his methodology fails to address any possible contradictions within the socioeconomic foundations of society.
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Such behavior is antisocial: it denies the foundations of society and leads to chaos.
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He considered the basic foundations of society as constraining the natural development of individuals to use their powers of reasoning to arrive at a mutually beneficial method of social organization.
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The federal government, which is the foundation of capitalism and modern civilization, has become nothing less than an insidious idea that corrupts the foundations of society itself.
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