Sentence examples for claim a basis from inspiring English sources

Though he died in 1919, before the Nazi Party had been founded, his ideas, and widespread influence in Germany, unquestionably helped to create an intellectual climate in which policies of racial slavery and genocide were able to claim a basis in science.

Such excess cheapens the concept of solid educational research, ensuring only that proponents of any policy will now claim a scientific basis for their proposals.

Some studies claim a biological basis for differences in achievement and preference between males and females (Baron-Cohen 2003; Geary 1998; Kimura 1999).

Yes, we will continue to have our Mark Driscolls and our Southern Baptist Conventions who claim a Biblical basis for the systemic oppression of half the world's population.

That response might be defensible, but a supporter of a strike against Syria can only claim a moral basis if he has at least asked that question and answered it satisfactorily.

The weird thing is it wasn't really cheating for the beneficiaries to claim a higher cost basis for inherited assets to minimize their capital gains tax hit.

Can he claim a mandate on that basis?

In a 1977 letter to a Swedish newspaper, he rejected the idea that the field of economics could claim a Nobel on the basis of its scientific rigor.

More Good News: In the case of inheritance, you are able to claim a "step-up in home basis", meaning that your basis in the asset is updated to the current market value of the home.

The taxpayer then uses that increase in basis to claim a larger loss if the stock is then sold at a loss or a smaller taxable gain if it is sold at a profit.

Usually when someone has admitted guilt — Robert Stewart had already entered his plea by the time his son's trial began — there is no basis to claim a privilege against self-incrimination because the potential for a future prosecution is gone.