The Three Jewels constitute the basis of the Jain doctrinal and ethical stance.
Known as Thomism, this doctrine came to constitute the basis of official Roman Catholic theology from 1879.
The idea that alienation and displacement might themselves constitute the basis of a religious awakening would have been repellent to him.
Moreover, they constitute the basis of such minerals as diamond, quartz, and feldspar and such man-made materials as concrete, glass, paper, plastics, and rubbers.
The Qurʾān, the sacred text of Islam, contains allusions that constitute the basis of a providential history of humankind from Adam through Muhammad, the founder of Islam.
However because the three Rs form the basis of most well-educated people's experience of education, many make the mistake of assuming that they constitute the basis of all education – of education itself.
Although Putin grew up under Soviet atheism, he nonetheless decried secular Americans and Europeans for "rejecting their roots, including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilization".
But when Dvorak heard Harry Burleigh, a black conservatory student from Pennsylvania, sing "Go Down, Moses" and "Deep River," he had a revelation about what could constitute the basis of a truly American classical musical vernacular.
Now Google plans to compete with Amazon to sell electronic books, and Amazon has joined Microsoft and Yahoo in protesting that Google's effort to digitize the world's library might constitute the basis of an e-book monopoly.
Like so many on the American and the European far right, Putin warns that the West has been rejecting the "Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilization".
A number of underlying constructs constitute the basis of foresight.
