Sentence examples for basic thrust of the from inspiring English sources
Just before Robert B. Zoellick, the United States trade representative, visited Brazil earlier this week, Brazil's president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, strongly criticized the tariffs and said they contradicted the basic thrust of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, a regional trade accord that Mr. Bush has urged Latin American nations to join.
It flies in the face of the basic thrust of the report".
Still, the basic thrust of the Lincoln Center Festival has not changed all that much since it began.
The planned statements and other details had changed since the draft, dated July 16, the officials said, but they did not disavow the basic thrust of the release.
The particulars could be modified, but many people following the maneuvering say they believe that it represents the basic thrust of the Government's thinking.
However, sources said it was unthinkable that the basic thrust of the EU's position would be altered by the prime minister's words.
In this year's Wincott Lecture, delivered in London last week, David Henderson, distinguished academic, former chief economist of the OECD and noted liberal, agreed with the basic thrust of this argument but extended or modified it in several interesting ways.Mr Henderson pointed out, first, that the backlash is both older and newer than you might think.
While this dissertation does not take issue with the basic thrust of this history, it focuses on deficiencies in all three of these educators' approaches that served to compromise their commitment to strong civic education.
"The basic thrust of this law is that all of these nooks and crannies, all these gaps where private insurance has left you without any option, those are going to be taken away," said DeAnn Friedholm, the campaign director of health reform for Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports.
The basic thrust of these criticisms, predicated on attribution theory, was that, naturally, people would attribute "felt-good" experiences to events during which they had a role, whereas events that had caused dissatisfaction had to have been caused by external factors.
