Sentence examples for but a poor basis from inspiring English sources

The term "ethnic Hungarian" is convenient journalistic shorthand but a poor basis for legislation.

The scientists I know have the same personality quirks as people in any other profession.The unemotional Spock was the Enterprise's chief science officer, but science fiction is a poor basis for characterizing all scientists.

Moscow has behaved badly and Ukrainians are suffering as a result, but such humanitarian considerations, though real, are a poor basis for issuing military commitments.

But moral outrage has turned out to be a poor basis for policy.America's illegal-drugs policy is a dismal re-run of its attempt to prohibit the sale of alcoholNowhere is that more evident than in the United States.

These two extremes of data management seem a poor basis on which to build the modern information society.

Still, impatience with all methods except those of natural science is a poor basis on which to identify those exceptions.

Unfortunately, opinion polling on this is superficial (the question is in effect, "are you for or against the national religion?") and a poor basis for policy.

The bias towards co-investors on measures of ability is weaker: investors with degrees from the best universities are just 9% more likely to get together.Rapport is a poor basis for selecting partners.

Social obligation is a poor basis for a general condemnation of suicide because it can just as easily be used to justify, and even promote, suicide in certain circumstances.This problem is avoided by another class of arguments against suicide based on the axiom that there is an intrinsic value to all human life, and that suicide is therefore wrong.

In this simple form the argument is vulnerable to the objection that people's intuitions provide a poor basis for settling theoretical disputes about ontological commitments.

Many forest experiments test for nutrient limitation in replicated fertilization trials at one or several locations, providing a poor basis for extrapolation across large landscapes.