The phrase "a specific basis for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the foundation or reasoning behind a particular argument, decision, or action.
Example: "The committee needs to provide a specific basis for their recommendations to ensure transparency and accountability."
Alternatives: "a clear rationale for" or "a defined foundation for".
This wording captures the predicament facing the civil liberties union as well as other groups: Judge Souter's record, silent on many issues, raises questions for these groups but does not "demonstrate" a specific basis for opposition.
In his opinion for the appeals court panel, in which he was joined by Judge Diane P. Wood, Judge Posner said the Michigan case stood for the principle that the general rule requiring the police to have a specific basis for stopping someone could be relaxed for a purpose other than crime detection, like public safety.
Her first hit, "On & On" (1997), for example, wasn't about any one subject, though there was a specific basis for some of the lyrics: the Nation of Islam of Gods and Earths, a splinter group formed in Harlem by Clarence 13X Smith after he broke with the Nation of Islam, in 1963.
A specific basis of this oedema-based hypothesis for traumatic photalgia is the established result that apparently diffuse brain trauma does in fact have a focal effect centered on the brainstem23 (Fig. 1).
Notably, monocytes/Mφ express only select types of the numerous chemokine receptors (for example, CCR1, 2, 5, 7, and 8 as well as CX3CR1), representing a partially specific basis for prominent trafficking of monocyte/Mφ in arthritis.
Identify the specific basis for the harassment complaint, and ask the interviewee to respond to the allegations.
This requires correlation of the external RPM block position with the internal tumor position on a patient-specific basis for PET attenuation correction.
Underneath the hood, there's an APS-C Exmor CMOS sensor with 20.1 megapixel resolution, and Sony's Bionz X image processor, which offers low noise on an area-specific basis for better low light shots.
In languages with rich morphologies, morphemic processing seems to be supported by distinct neural networks, thereby providing evidence for a specific neuronal basis for morphology as part of the cerebral language machinery.
At that preliminary stage, the Commission did not propose a specific legal basis for the instrument.
Judicial Watch lawyer Michael Bekesha told the appeals court panel in arguments Thursday that the government didn't provide a specific enough basis for denying the request.
