Sentence examples for a basis of zero from inspiring English sources

He said 85 percent of the stock he owned had a basis of zero, so basically its entire value was subject to capital gains.

The remaining property inside Milton's credit shelter trust will be distributed as well, and both the property and the policy proceeds will have a basis of zero.

The rights issue, at 465p per share on a basis of two new shares for every seven held, represents a considerable volte face.

An increasing number of western countries are planning their public finances on a basis of three to five years, but this is nowhere near enough, argues Mr Heller.

We disagree.For this reason, MIT has spun out a non-profit association, called One Laptop Per Child (or OLPC), to design, manufacture and distribute laptops that will be provided to governments at cost and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child.

The radial deflection of the shell is expanded by using a basis of seven linear modes.

The tension control law is designed on a basis of two straightforward ideas, i.e., the potential energy shaping and the damping injection.

We use here for the quantum dot the Kopylov's Hamiltonian operator written in a basis of two Bloch states or for each of three nonequivalent X-points in the Brillouin zone.

On a basis of two sets of foliage clutter data collected by a UWB radar, we show that it is more accurate to describe the amplitude of foliage clutter using log-logistic statistic model ratherthanlog-normal, Weibull, or Nakagami.

Here we have taken a basis of six different microcapsule release systems, from which we build a tailored release history using constrained optimization to fit a prescribed release profile.

The new findings thus suggest that the meanings of concrete nouns can be semantically represented in terms of the activation of a basis set of three main factors distributed across approximately 12 locations in the cortex.