Here's a piece of limestone.

Now a block of limestone, in itself, isn't particularly that interesting.

The southern islands are limestone, with level terraces and fringing coral reefs.

Also present in the south and northwest is limestone with magnificent caves.

This was the bedrock of his hope for reconciliation between Jew and Arab.

The transatlantic relationship embedded in our shared values remains the bedrock of our global efforts.

So a more concrete undertaking, one that preserves South Korea s bedrock security concerns, is needed.

We need cultural bedrock, but we now have more writers than readers. This is wrong.

Being truthful and faithful to what is the bedrock of Church teaching cannot be deemed conservative.

St. Petersburg is not a cultural capital, Moscow has much more culture, there is bedrock there.

The bedrock economic, social, and political institutions in Western societies took decades, if not centuries, to develop.

The sodium sulphate was heated with limestone (calcium carbonate) and coal to give a mixture of sodium carbonate and calcium sulphide.

Ray It was Crease Limestone, and that was produced by sea creatures 350 million years ago in a nice, warm, sunny atmosphere.

This suggests that governing principles and sturdy political institutions, not powerful individuals, have become the bedrock of Mexican governance.

It rests on a bedrock of good governance and the rule of law in other words, a well performing state.

These are precisely the people needed to help foster a vibrant middle class the bedrock of a stable democratic market economy.

These are precisely the people needed to help foster a vibrant middle class the bedrock of a stable democratic market economy.

It has long been a bedrock principle of American foreign policy to endorse any move to further integrate the European Union.

Any transition to peace may well prove ephemeral unless policymakers make political reconciliation and integration not optimal economic policies the bedrock priority.

They are the only possible bedrock in transatlantic relations, in an expanded Union, and in relations between the New'' and Old'' Europe.

Such recriminations do not mean that the US Japan alliance the bedrock of America s forward military deployment in Asia is in immediate jeopardy.

Its topography and ecology are similar to that of Mona Island, a small limestone island located in the Mona Passage, between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

The limestone monument had fallen under the control of Byzantines, Greeks, Ayyubids, Ottomans, and others, and each of its various conquerors left their own mark on it architecturally.

I love how they were able to preserve most in everything that makes you feel close to nature butterflies, man made forests, limestone caves and hey, even a huge python.

Yes, sound political and social institutions are the bedrock of sustained economic growth indeed, they are the sine qua non of all cases of successful development.

This National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the main attraction is the stone forest that is composed of limestone needles originating from erosion patterns from groundwater and winds.

The Bush doctrine's bedrock notion is that of pre emptive war, a doctrine that lacks international legitimacy and that therefore can usually count on only a limited number of allies.

After all, property collateral is the bedrock of the Chinese financial system, with estimates of banks direct and indirect exposure to real estate ranging from 66 to 89 of GDP.

The rule of law and the freedoms associated with pluralism due process and the freedom of speech, assembly, and worship were to remain the bedrock of Hong Kong s prosperity and stability.

If Chile's rightist political parties want to capitalize on Mr. Lavin's popularity, they must show that they have moved away from their bedrock conservative ideology and have become pragmatic, modern, and issue oriented.

Maintaining the false label of communism while reviving capitalism and insisting that Mao, for all his mistakes and crimes, was 70 correct is the bedrock of the moral corruption that afflicts China today.

Indeed, the key factor distinguishing institutional development in the West from that in developing countries is time. The bedrock economic, social, and political institutions in Western societies took decades, if not centuries, to develop.

Nelson Mandela I take a little piece of limestone from Robben Island Prison, where he labored for 27 years, and came out with so little bitterness, he could lead his people from the horror of apartheid without a bloodbath.

This was the bedrock of his hope for reconciliation between Jew and Arab. That this Arab renaissance to use the phrase of the great Palestinian scholar George Antonius did not take place may have been Eban's greatest disappointment.

Indeed, it is patently clear from his own words that Yanukovich does not accept the legitimacy of the Orange Revolution, which means that he does not accept the bedrock principle of democracy that you cannot cheat your way to power.

Indeed, it is patently clear from his own words that Yanukovych does not accept the legitimacy of the Orange Revolution, which means that he does not accept the bedrock principle of democracy that you cannot cheat your way to power.

Chinese leaders recall that the US promised Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that German reunification and democratic transition in Eastern Europe would not mean eastward expansion of NATO. So a more concrete undertaking, one that preserves South Korea s bedrock security concerns, is needed.

It has long been a bedrock principle of American foreign policy to endorse any move to further integrate the European Union. If specific US interests might be harmed by such moves, the remedy is to seek revisions in detail, without opposing the overall initiative.

Polish foreign policy, like that of the EU, can only be effective in the long term if it takes realistic steps and spends the necessary money to realize these objectives. They are the only possible bedrock in transatlantic relations, in an expanded Union, and in relations between the New'' and Old'' Europe.

If Chile's rightist political parties want to capitalize on Mr. Lavin's popularity, they must show that they have moved away from their bedrock conservative ideology and have become pragmatic, modern, and issue oriented. If the right fails to convince voters that it has, in fact, moved in this direction, it is likely to go back to its traditional 30 of the vote.