cornerstone的意思|cornerstone的解释-里氏词典

cornerstone ['kɔrnɚ`ston]

n. 奠基石, 基础

Hard work is the cornerstone of success.
努力工作是成功的首要因素。
is a vital cornerstone of global strategic security.
是全球战略安全的基石.
Accurate diagnosis is the cornerstone of medical care.
正确诊断是医疗照护的基础。

cornerstone

[ noun ]

the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained

<noun.cognition>

the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture

a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies

<noun.artifact>

a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls

<noun.artifact>

"However, the cornerstone of the U.S. arms sales policy has always been to examine first and foremost the strategic and moral implications of military sales," Reich said.
It is starting to move into the higher-volume voice telephony market. Concert is the cornerstone of the Dollars 5.3bn (Pounds 3.35bn) alliance between BT and MCI forged in mid-1993.
The company said it expects American Savings to provide 15% of its income, and to become the "cornerstone" of its involvement in the financial-services industry.
The cornerstone of postwar American foreign policy had been laid smoothly.
The White House lauded the Senate vote on the CFE treaty, calling the measure "the cornerstone of the new security structure we have been working to construct in Europe."
As times are changing, the solidarity between Europe and the United States, between Italy and the United States, based on a thorough sharing of values remains a cornerstone and a prerequisite for facing these very changes.
The odd lineup reflects a deep and peculiar division within the administration as Reagan awaits a response from Moscow on when to review the treaty, considered a cornerstone of the arms control process.
The First Amendment as an abstraction will be feted as the cornerstone of our democracy this birthday year; Mr. Powe's sober volume challenges us to honor our great traditions in fact.
But that would require a major revision of the economic plan, which Carlsson argued was necessary to put a lid on inflation without jeopardizing the cornerstone policy of full employment.
The convention cornerstone was laid at the end of the evening by former President Carter, who urged the delegates to capture the party's most elusive value: "Unity, one more time, unity," he exhorted.
"The individual's freedom of choice remains a cornerstone of the American system," Nelson said.
But undoubtedly the thorniest issue is the future of the scala mobile, the system of inflation-linked pay raises that has been a cornerstone of the Italian employment system for 45 years.
It soon became a cornerstone of operations for some of the world's biggest oil companies, including Atlantic Richfield and Exxon Corp., which jointly discovered it.
If it does so, it could well reject the customs union, a cornerstone of Turkish foreign policy. Western governments repeatedly tell Turkish officials that a purely military approach cannot work.
You'll have two or three." Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos praised parental choice Sunday as the "cornerstone" to rebuilding America's schools, but said some restrictions on student transfers may be necessary to prevent segregation.
"Iliescu is a potential dictator, and he must be stopped," said Gabriel Andreescu of the intellectual Group for Social Dialogue, a cornerstone of the nationwide Civic Alliance opposition.
The plan could well emerge as a cornerstone of the Democratic presidential campaign, the 1988 version of John Kennedy's 1960 call to create a Peace Corps to perform good work overseas.
Adhering to terms of the agreement, De Benedetti has reduced his Societe Generale holdings and abandoned his takeover bid that was the cornerstone of his plan to create a pan-European holding company.
Many in the LDP regard Japan's taboo on lay-offs as essential to corporate loyalty and a cornerstone of the post-war economic success which took place under its rule.
In Parliament, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, shouting above opposition jeers, denied she is bent on dismantling the cornerstone of the welfare state.
This would eliminate the German bankers' advantage of having the mark, the cornerstone of the European monetary system, as the basis for their business dealings.
Francisco Mayorga, president of the central bank, hailed the gold cordoba as the cornerstone of the economic revival promised by the new government, but it has been a mild flop.
But radicals argue that holding hostages is a means of confronting the West, which the anti-Western faction considers a cornerstone of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
"One of the great mysteries of the White House is where they put the cornerstone," she said.
The Minuteman has been the cornerstone of the U.S. land-based ballistic-missile system since the 1960s.
While Japanese views of Japan's proper role in the war varied widely, there's broad agreement that good relations with the U.S. must remain the cornerstone of Japanese foreign policy.
They consider confronting the West a cornerstone of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
But few smaller firms have the kind of international operations and trading expertise that give the cornerstone U.S. firms an edge in the markets.
The trust was the cornerstone of Manville's bankruptcy-court reorganization plan.
This could be a serious political setback for the government, which has made privatization the cornerstone of its economic policy.

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