Sentence examples for bad basis from inspiring English sources

Neutrality plus accountability is not a bad basis for a truce, and it is a logical step for the next generation of federal aid.

Judging by the acts on stage in Barcelona, the entertainment industry is obsessed by youth but age is not a bad basis for managing it.

But you do not need to take a view on issues such as these, or on the merits of the programme, to think that ignorance and crude populism are a bad basis for censorship or that none of this has anything to do with the government.All in all, it has been a bad week for the censors.

In Britain in 2007, Northern Rock was both nationalised and reorganised on a good bank, bad bank basis.

There was among both the boys and the girls an abhorrence of female sexuality, a shared willingness to define the act of sex as either forced or a bargaining chip, to divide girls into "good" and "bad" on the basis of whether they "held out".

"It is hard to imagine a moral system developing that didn't have as its basis a bad feeling for bad people and a good feeling for good people and events," she says.

The old saw that hard cases make bad law has its basis in experience.

On the basis that bad news is good news for someone, Shire shares are up 179.5p at £46.11.

But to pay counsel on a contingent fee basis is bad public policy akin to paying the police on a contingent or piecemeal basis.

This is not some impassioned defence of McClaren's managerial ability or convoluted plea for sympathy on the basis of bad luck, because the argument works both ways.

The good news is that global economies are decarbonising at 1.2%/year on a per dollar of GDP basis, the bad news is that this decarbonisation rate is not fast enough.