Sentence examples for basis for something from inspiring English sources

But hopes are cautiously rising that the basis for something more durable may be laid.

When he talked about 'house codes', I thought Gaytten meant to fillet the archives for signatures he could use as the basis for something new.

Its greatest writers were native Italians, and, like the ruler whose program they glorified, they used the traditional as the basis for something new.

"You've got to have a basis for something that relates to that, and we couldn't find it," Swarbrick said in a telephone interview Thursday.

One hurdle for the Administration's lawyers will be explaining the President's tweets, in which he suggested that this new version was just a "politically correct" placeholder that should be the basis for something "much tougher".

In announcing the cease-fire plan on Wednesday, Mr. Brahimi, the joint special representative of the United Nations and the Arab League, said that he hoped it could serve as the basis for something longer and more sustainable.

Investors aren't going to pay 75 basis points for something that behaves like the S&P 500.

... most troubling is that he presumes that the ignorance of others is a reasonable basis for doing something to their property.

Herein, we use relatively simple and naïve genetic models (i.e., Mendelian inheritance, and no dependence among growth and maturation parameters) in part because the basis for assuming something more complex is lacking.

Does Amazon demand not just professionalism, but near-perfection; work its people excessively long hours; convene conference calls on holidays; rank and yank like the discredited tactics of Jack Welch; have a real basis for 40-somethings worrying they will be replaced by 30-somethings, who are in turn fearful they will be replaced by 20-somethings; and foster ulcer-inducing stress?

"Why not unite and use football for the basis of something so positive?" she asks in her interview on BBC World Service.