Sentence examples for Basic affairs from inspiring English sources

When public opinion has lost the will to compel an investigation into the apparent subversion of a Presidential election by officials of the Administration in power, it has been neutralized as a voice in the basic affairs of the Republic.

Computer programs already exist to help office workers avoid RSI, but until now they have often been fairly basic affairs, forcing employees to take breaks every 20 minutes and offering some exercises.

As the report underlines, these communities all suffer from lack of legal status in Turkey, which renders it difficult for them to conduct even the most basic affairs and forces them into a shadowy existence at the mercy of political fashions and whims.

But early neo-vaginas were pretty basic affairs until the late 1950s when a French plastic surgeon invented penile inversion.

In late 2008, problems in Zimbabwe reached crisis proportions in the areas of living standards, public health (with a major cholera outbreak in December) and various basic affairs.

The 1975 piece here, from MOMA's collection, is a pretty basic affair.

The bar was a more basic affair than Uptown Local, which had a full menu and a dining room.

Its Agavita Spa, a basic affair with a few spartan massage and facial rooms, is being replaced by a planned 12,000-square-foot facility with a therapy pool that will make use of the 100-degree water that flows from the Lajitas aquifer (and is cooled down for daily use by hotel guests).

This now is the "Diamonds" tour which, as you can imagine, is far from a back-to-basics affair.

The last Shipwreck re-invention came back in 2011; a stripped-down, back-to-basics affair that overcompensated for the viciousness of Battle of the Islands by being relentlessly dull.

Maryland's primary was a "back to basics" affair conducted with paper and ink, The Associated Press reported.