The phrase "a basis for sustained" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the foundation or reasoning behind something that is intended to continue over a period of time.
Example: "The research provides a basis for sustained growth in the renewable energy sector."
Alternatives: "a foundation for ongoing" or "a framework for continuous".
While a series of unfortunate events, including the Japan earthquake, rising energy prices and instability in the Middle East, might have shaken business confidence in recent months, Summers says that current U.S. economic policies remain the right ones, pointing to recent monetary and fiscal initiatives of the government as a "basis for sustained growth".
Assuming that the incoming Obama administration does enact an $850.0 billion fiscal stimulus package quickly, it will do little to stop real GDP growth from dropping like a stone in the first half of 2009, but could help to turn things around in the second half and provided a basis for sustained growth in 2010, Behravesh said.
That overall figure disguises how badly some economies like Italy and Portugal have done since the introduction of the euro in 1999 (see chart).There is an opportunity nonetheless for European leaders to build a basis for stronger sustained growth.
While China's economic powerhouses – such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen – have been ordered to help the poorest areas, some are sceptical about the basis for sustained growth.
Mr. Etlin also said there were thousands of Brazilian companies, mostly family owned, that could provide the basis for sustained activity.
SO OFTEN in Haiti urgent problems mudslides that bury towns, storms that wash houses out to sea or spikes in food prices and chronic political instability have conspired to subvert efforts to lay the basis for sustained development.
But Tom W. Smith, director of the General Social Survey at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, said there was "no basis for sustaining a number even half that high".
Ciliated and basal cells types can be transduced, potentially providing a basis for both immediate and sustained transgene expression, respectively.
While the rally is "much welcomed," he said, "I think we went up too fast without a fundamental basis for a sustained recovery".
It's left the Clippers needing one or two players to carry the team on a nightly basis, never a formula for sustained success.
