(John) … [I believe in] developing bonds and relationships with people on the basis of common interests or commonality or personality or a sense of humour and all these sets of criterion.
It is the basis of common law and justice.
The ability of a liquid to dissolve selectively forms the basis of common separation operations in chemical and related industries.
AO3 is an "affinity space," where people can work together on the basis of common goals and tastes, without direct institutional validation or material reward.
The World Values Survey divides the world into big cultural zones (the Confucian zone, the English-speaking zone, etc) on the basis of common values.
The plan approved Friday calls for national regulators to conduct the tests on the basis of common criteria drafted with the European Commission.
Dr. King, a professor of medical genetics at the University of Washington, studies the genetic basis of common complex medical conditions like breast cancer and mental illness.
Moreover, in an age when mass media provide the basis of common experience, "Star Wars" and a handful of other cultural icons may have become a kind of shorthand form of communication.
The Arab world welcomes a balanced and evenhanded American policy in the Middle East, and looks forward to consolidating its ties with the United States on the basis of common interests and mutual respect.
Understanding the genetic basis of common disease was the promised payoff of the $3 billion human genome project, which was completed in 2003 but has taken some time to show many tangible results.
The authors also say their findings cast doubt on the way that a large government and industry program is mining the genome for the genetic basis of common human diseases.
