It used to be a cradle of civilization.
Wuxi’s well-formed basic education is the cradle for professors, academicians and university presidents.
Frank: I'm not I came in here, I heard those words: cradle of , when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, and it has fallen here, it has fallen.
During British rule the region formed the backbone of the colonial economy and served as a cradle of Zambian nationalism.
When she slept little Thumbelina lay in her cradle on a tiny heap of violets, with the petal of a pale pink rose to cover her.
The seminary is of enormous symbolic importance. It is the ideological cradle of Israel's settler movement and has provided many of its leading figures.
Mr Yousif’s ambitions do not end there. He plans to create a team of venture-capital researchers to sift through innovators’ ideas and provide the good ones with a cradle-to-IPO service.
marine slipway cradle
The road of salvation was mapped out from the cradle to the grave.
Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children, even like a mother while rocking her baby’s cradle.
Boy: a ha! How big the slipper is. It will do for a cradle when I have a child.
Some researchers have argued that speciation rates, both terrestrial and marine, could be much higher in the tropics, making them a "cradle" of biodiversity.
Although both juvenile male and female chimpanzees were seen playing with sticks in Kibale National Park in Uganda, females were more likely to cradle the sticks and treat them like infants.
What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.
Among the reliquaries on display is a stone carving of the baby Jesus lying on a rock crystal cradle.
The drama of love that I saw played out at the bar each night as a child is all about the human hunger for safe emotional connection, a survival imperative we experience from the cradle to the grave.
Wuxi is the cradle of China's national industry and township industry.
Here is the cradle for many elite businessmen who not only bring success to themselves but to local economy as well.
O! The Huanghe （River）， cradle of the Chinese nation.
Denmark and its Nordic neighbors have the most extensive cradle-to-grave protection systems in the European Union. They also pay the highest taxes.
As the students found, premature tightening of fiscal policy could strangle the recovery in its cradle and worsen future deficits.
While they have a reputation for drugs and violence, the slums are also vibrant centers of culture, the cradle of samba, and many are perfectly safe to visit with guides.
But the protection offered by a cradle-to-grave welfare system hides a dark underside.
