Sentence examples for been the basic if from inspiring English sources

Straddling the Atlantic has long been the basic, if sometimes painful, position upon which all UK foreign policy is based.

That's the basic if two-factor authentication.

These molecules are the basic (if not unique) energy resource of an organism.

That's the basic, if perhaps problematic, message of the Gillette ad.

(That $110.50 would have been the basic rate for all seniors if Social Security recipients had gotten a cost of living increase).

The day rate of €1.70 or the week rate of €8 is the basic fee; if you ride longer than 30 minutes for any journey, you start paying extra.

Here's the basic math: if you build a pipeline in 2016, the investment will be amortized for 40 years or more.

I think he would reiterate that "want" – or poverty – is the basic evil that, if you don't abolish, drags down all your attempts at making people healthier or better educated.

To raise just one, we can ask: what are the basic entities in the world if not just those that fall under the various categories?

If particles were the basic objects of QFT how can it be that there are physical phenomena even if nothing is there according to this very ontology?

If communities were the basic units of new work, the general organisation model for work could be provided by networks.