Sentence examples for basis is weak from inspiring English sources

McConnell and Clarke have been pushing cyber war, but their evidentiary basis is weak".

The Hueter-Volkmann law is well known from orthopaedic textbooks but its quantitative basis is weak.

We cannot base our military strategy on the basis that Saddam is weak and at the same time justify pre-emptive action on the claim that he is a seri ous threat.

Due to the dearth of prison health satisfaction studies the basis for comparison is weak.

But Boris Mannhardt, managing director of BIOCOM Project Management, which set up a biotechnology website for the federal ministry of education and research, said dragging the Ruhr into the digital age is a big ask: "The scientific basis is quite weak in the Ruhr region.

The legal basis for this challenge is weak, however, and the man leading the charge, speaker Eduardo Cunha, is himself under investigation for bribery.

"Socialization" is widely cited as the primary mechanism for intergenerational fertility transmission in contemporary societies, although the empirical basis for doing so is weak, as alternative explanations are rarely investigated.

But the objective basis here for their cynicism is weak.

Despite a century of research, however, the empirical basis for this "cheap trick" is weak [4].

It is nevertheless accepted that the scientific basis for management of this fishery is weak and further information on the behaviour of this species and fishing statistics are badly needed.

A recent report prepared by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and funded by the American Plastics Council concluded that evidence for low-dose effects of BPA is weak on the basis of a review of only 19 studies; the report was issued after a delay of 2.5 years.