Sentence examples for basis of a big from inspiring English sources

In a recent appearance on Capitol Hill, George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, cautioned against making the Iraq war the basis of "a big domino theory about what happens in the rest of the Arab world".

As the Super Committee threatens this week to gut the government on the basis of a big lie, it's more important than ever that we fight back with systematic data.

When the US went to war in Iraq in 2003 on the basis of a big lie about weapons of mass destruction, the Iraqi leader was a tyrant, no doubt about it.

The deal underscores Vimeo's strategy to position itself as a one-stop shop for companies or individuals that publish videos online — either as part of publicity campaigns or as the basis of a bigger project.

In the second step, the full covariance matrices of hydraulic head and log-transmissivity are calculated numerically on the basis of a sufficiently big number of Monte Carlo realisations.

Some, indeed, think alternative energy will be the basis of a boom bigger than information technology.Whether that boom will happen quickly enough to stop the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaching dangerous levels is moot.

The Ray Charles Show appears on a concert basis; it consists of a big band (17 men), the Raelets, a female vocal quartet, and Charles, himself, with Joe Adams.

When my big girl gets too hungry, she turns into a hell-beast, so making sure she gets enough food on a regular basis is a big part of my job as her mother.

That word "basis" is a big deal.

To increase its reserves to pay future claims, the company set aside $2.7 billion on a pretax basis, accounting for a big portion of its loss.

But it would lead to a libel law agreed by lawmakers on the basis of the big issues, rather than the existing raft of precedents, all set by judges dealing with narrow points and particular cases.