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- Nov 07, 2020
Edifice Quotes
What holds the whole structure up.
'Edifice' turns up here as a favorite word for describing institutions under strain — journalism's shaky foundation in old newspaper reporting, the church built on its apostles, a nation standing through centuries.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech - antonomastice - the foundation because the edifice of the church begins from him and is finished in him and through him. But the prophets and apostles are the foundations because their authority bears up our weakness.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.
- Despised
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
- Brick
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- Nov 07, 2020