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Перевод: bedrock

[существительное]
коренная порода; коренная подстилающая порода; основные принципы; почва ; бедрок [геол.]

Тезаурус:

1. The flight from the countryside has compounded the misery of the urban poor, traditionally the bedrock of Sandinista support.
2. In the course of two years North developed his own slide show, part accurate, part exaggeration, part emotion, and this representation was the bedrock of the domestic campaign for the contras: the world in 57 pictures of blurry military bases and Communist commandantes , utterly simple in its division between good and bad, and curiously believable.
3. "In all this we see the very bedrock of our constitution beginning to quake
4. Mr Kinnock described the health service as the bedrock of Britain and health care as an inalienable right of citizenship.
5. "It is a bedrock of traditional liberalism to build on and it is here that we are likely to see the most substantial progress of all.
6. As for soil, it varies considerably, ranging from bedrock under much of Manhattan to sandy sediments under eastern suburbs that would amplify the effects of small quakes.
7. They studied six lakes, including some with afforested and some with treeless catchments, all lying on granite bedrock with little buffering capacity.
8. On these surfaces of glacial deposits, wind blown sand, peat and exposed bedrock successive waves of settlement have cleared, burned, grazed and cultivated, while others have turned to the seas for sustenance.
9. The Archaean bedrock of Lewisian gneiss provides a stable basement platform upon which recent land-forming events such as glaciation, sea level changes and ubiquitous peat-development have been superimposed.
10. THE AREA TO BE described in this book lies mainly in the north-west corner of Yorkshire where the Three Peaks of Ingleborough, Penyghent and Whernside rise steeply from a compact bedrock of limestone between Dentdale and Malham.
11. "Vauxhall deserves credit for strengthening and sustaining the bedrock of motorsport with its imaginative grass roots programme in single-seaters"
12. Policing the street was the bedrock of urban policing.
13. Pending any agreement with the Arab states, particularly with Jordan which hoped to secure the return of its lost territory, Israel's Defence Minister, Moshe Dayan, established a pattern which remained the bedrock of Israel's occupation policy.