Sentence examples for basis for telling from inspiring English sources

On one tape, John Bowe, Anglo Irish's director of the treasury, conceded that he had no rational basis for telling the government that 7 billion euros was all it would take to rescue the bank.

But Mr. O'Keefe said, "If for whatever reason that succession of flights is not achievable, the idea of leaving them there for a sustained period of time, without the capacity to support them, is something we'd have to consider seriously as a basis for telling them to dim the lights and come on back".

Deduction alone is good for telling what might happen.

Hillary Clinton has a very positive overall rating for telling the truth; Donald Trump has an extraordinarily low rating, showing that he tells bald-faced lies on a daily basis.

Contempt for the opinions of allies and constituents is hardly a basis for truth-telling.

"Donald and I were on a first-name basis for years," Kovaleski told the Times on Thursday.

"I think the NYCLU campaign is great," Piper Kerman, whose memoir is the basis for the series, told me by e-mail.

As the former CIA man Bob Baer - whose books on his time with the agency were the basis for Syriana - told us: "All these people that run studios - they go to Washington, they hang around with senators, they hang around with CIA directors, and everybody's on board".

YESTERDAY, through opening statements and questioning of the first witness, the judge all but glared from his bench, maintaining a fierce, baleful expression as he lectured defense lawyers about establishing a basis for their objections; told everyone in the courtroom to "stop talking," but not to bother rising when he enters; and issued a quick judgment about the admissibility of evidence.

John and Jane, and the millions like them, are the rebuke to those who see United's reticence as the basis for an "I told you so" about Obamacare.

Patricia Tribe, the former director of education at Space Center Houston who came up with the basis for the project, told HuffPost that the thought of merging space and reading came up after she did some research on literacy and science skills in the United States.