Sentence examples for Basic plank from inspiring English sources

Most of all, they have assailed a basic plank in China's reform platform: improved and stable relations with America.

But she pointedly did not mention a basic plank of previous talks — using Israel's pre-1967 borders as a basis for territorial negotiations.

Mr. Bradley said Mr. Gore's attacks against his plan "have cast doubt on his commitment to a basic plank of Democratic platform, which is national health insurance".

Wilmot Proviso, in U.S. history, important congressional proposal in the 1840s to prohibit the extension of slavery into the territories, a basic plank upon which the Republican Party was subsequently built.

A basic plank of Kaifu's ruling Liberal Democratic Party platform is constitution revision, and several right-wing party leaders advocate changing the Self-Defense Law to prevail over constitutional taboos and allow overseas deployment.

For a basic plank, start by getting into push-up position on the floor.

"If you put us [the FCA], the Bank of England and the Treasury into a room you would not find differences of view on basic planks of this," Bailey replies.

Mr. Martinez said he expected his return-to-basics plank would help turn Wall Street sweet on Sears again.

When doing a basic front plank or side plank, try lifting up one leg at a time and holding it for 5 to 10 seconds.

There are only three pews and even they're pretty basic as we planked them out of a cypress we felled.

And the most basic models -- a plank of wood suspended from two ropes or an old tire tied to a tree -- still hold their own in competition with top-of-the-line play sets of cedar redwood.