Sentence examples for basis of things from inspiring English sources
"People are being turned down for jobs on the basis of things that really have nothing to do with qualifications".
The war, he believed, had been "an upheaval affecting the basis of things," including literary form and language as well as human purposes and values.
Asked about that hotel today, Judge Lippman said it was chosen like the others on the state's list, on the basis of things like location, cleanliness and cost.
We are making decisions, deploying more troops, giving out more contracts, on the basis of things we think we know about Iraq but have glimpsed only indirectly, or not at all.
Countries build futures on the basis of things that do not exist here: consensus as to the nature of the state, the rule of law, a concept of citizenship that overrides sectarian allegiance, and the ability to place the next generation's prosperity above the settling of past scores.
Especially don't do so on the basis of things like race, ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, gender identity, age, veteran status, or sexual orientation".
"Water is the basis of all things we do in a restaurant.
If you go on the basis of these things alone, it's easy to argue that there is no place for such an organization.
Marathon was the beginning of an epoch that lasted for centuries, during which Athens asserted its claim to uniqueness on the basis of two things: its achievements in the Persian Wars and (in and after the 4th century) its cultural primacy.
These groupings are made on the basis of such things as observed similarity (e.g., red versus black dots), proximity, common direction of movement, perceptual set (the way one is expecting to see things grouped), and extrapolation (one's estimate of what will happen based on an extension of what is now happening).
Should read: "Therefore, on the basis of those things from which God's power is seen to be greater and more admirable, the people who ineptly conceive of it judge it to be weak and impotent.
