Arch bridges generate large side thrusts on their footings and so may require a solid bedrock foundation.

First, due process is a bedrock foundation of our nation's legal system, even for those who violate the law.

Buttress style dams are built across wide valleys that do not have a solid bedrock foundation.

To ensure the dam's integrity, a solid contact between the bedrock foundation and the dam's concrete base is required.

For the builders, the site's solid bedrock foundation presented a problem.

Obama is also better suited for the task of renewing the bedrock foundations of American influence.

In a relationship, honesty is the bedrock foundation of a safe relationship.

The dam and its adjacent reservoir reside upon a heavily Karst bedrock foundation.

Gravity dams use their own weight to resist opposing forces and as such require a hard bedrock foundation.

"More than that, their nature - academic fraud - undermined the bedrock foundation of a university and the operation of its intercollegiate athletics program."