| There are Australianisms of language and tone, Australian touchstones of reference, that should be consciously preserved. |
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| We are, after all, introduced to him in the first stanza through his tastes, the touchstones he cannot lay aside and by which he judges all else. |
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| But these terms, profoundly limiting as they are, are actually touchstones that disputants in the periodical debate would recognize. |
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| Our writings serve as the academy's benchmarks, the ethical touchstones for the noblest of professions. |
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| State independence and individual self-reliance are touchstones of Texan society. |
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| Because we sometimes learn and remember best through the use of mnemonics I have created the following mental touchstones. |
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| It's a caper film, with all the obligatory touchstones of the genre and everyone underacts to great effect. |
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| Small black stones were used as touchstones to test the colour, and hence purity, of gold. |
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| Current and future touchstones are the economic aspects of business on the one hand and the social and environmental aspects on the other. |
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| Because of its ability to create powerful touchstones, TV enables young people to share cultural experiences with others. |
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| The guarantee of and respect for human and minority rights are the touchstones of democracy. |
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| The principle «from the simple to the complex» is so important that it is one of the touchstones of this prophecy study guide. |
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| The concept of preferential treatment in the context of Article 16 has to be examined on touchstones of trade as well as non-trade frameworks. |
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| Population health, prevention and the broad determinants of health will be the touchstones for the modernized health care system. |
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| Anti-imperialism and anti-Zionism are the touchstones of its orthodoxy. |
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| Accountability and transparency are touchstones of good governance. |
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| The credit crisis paining Wall Street is reaching out across the nation, afflicting municipalities, hospitals and cultural touchstones like the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
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| And because a great deal of dialogue occurs within player communities across borders, these cultural touchstones promote dialogue and raise cultural awareness among players everywhere. |
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| To have these touchstones – these vestal assistants to the man in sacerdotal white, playing out a precious midsummer rite – builds faith among those inclined to superficial mistrust or censure. |
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| Students in Environmental Science Communication at Pace University are assembling lists of vital online touchstones related to environmental science. |
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| Our values are our touchstones, enduring and guiding us throughout the many difficult and competing choices we make, the advice we give and the service we render. |
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| Annex 1 could and should be one of the touchstones of the Agreement. |
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| Each of their films is marked by theological, philosophical and mythological touchstones that enrich even the slapstickiest moments. |
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| The Penguin anthology The New Poetry and the successive slim volumes of the Penguin Modern Poets were our touchstones of taste and technique, for better or worse. |
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| But the Byrds became touchstones for indie pop. |
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| Both those coffee shops are touchstones for our community. |
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| Because this is a cultural committee, I am going to refer back to one of the touchstones of my life-I am an English literature student-Mary Shelley. |
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| Spinoza, Kant, Schmitt, Benjamin, and Rawls inform diverse arguments as well, and as touchstones can be useful guideposts in the midst of multifariousness. |
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