Sentence examples for chief basis from inspiring English sources

On the SAT, vocabulary is the chief basis for that evaluation.

The difference in emissions has been the chief basis for claims by the gas industry that this new form of gas represents a "green" shift that will help to tackle climate change.

Whereas such tribes as the Crow had large numbers of horses (in a warring and buffalo-hunting culture that demanded horses) and made their possession the chief basis of individual wealth and social status, the five tribes were relatively poor in horses, and age grades provided the basis of social stratification.

This productivity made it possible to store large surpluses against crop failures and also formed the chief basis of Egyptian wealth, which was, until the creation of the large empires of the 1st millennium bc, the greatest of any state in the ancient Middle East.

Where law obtains, Epicurus indicates, it is preferable not to commit crimes, even secret ones, since there will always be anxiety over the possibility of detection, and this will disrupt the tranquillity or ataraxy that is the chief basis of happiness in life (see Principal Beliefs = KD 34 35).

The chief basis for assessing the effect of cigarette taxes on cigarette consumption and on consumption of betel nuts and alcoholic beverages is the inherent price elasticity of cigarettes and the cross price elasticity of cigarette price elasticity relative to betel nuts and of cigarettes relative to alcoholic beverages.

"Our eating habits really start at a very young age," said Mr. Bartning, chief executive of Basis, a farm-food distribution and delivery service.

"States aren't limited to excluding animals from slaughter on a species-wide basis," Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel of the court.

"Even the more cursory search for the BBX trademark would have shown that we hold it," said Nico Spence, the chief executive of Basis.

"We are fielding numerous customer inquiries voicing their confusion about the RIM announcement," Nico Spence, the chairman and chief executive of Basis, said in a statement.

Because the basic social group was the family tribe, kin relationships from the tribal chief down formed the basis for the "managerial hierarchy".