Sentence examples for constituted the basic from inspiring English sources
From the beginning of the colonization of the Americas, Castilian law constituted the basic private law in the colonies, but, because special conditions prevailed there, the Spanish crown legislated specifically for the Indies (America), in the area of public law.
Rousseau's rejoinders to cosmopolitan commercialism have constituted the basic stock-in-trade of cultural and economic nationalists worldwide.
Elsewhere, however, on the Great Plains, the Canadian Shield, the northern Appalachians, the Cordilleras, the Great Basin, and the Pacific Coast, hunting, fishing, and gathering constituted the basic economic activity; and, in most instances, extensive territories were needed to feed and support small groups.
Here, we may assume the Board possesses full authority under the Act to supervise § 408 transactions between a controlling person and an air carrierjust as in Pan American, the allocation of routes and division of territories constituted the basic stuff of the Board's day-to-day business.
An optical system of direct shadowgraphy with diverging light, which consists of a point light source and a shadow screen, constituted the basic system, but the screen was replaced by focusing optics: a camera that makes a virtual screen at its focus plane.
Together, rational principle and generative force constituted the basic ingredients of a variety of expressions of the Neo-Confucian affirmation of the reality of the world.
The 15 counties, acting as agents of the state, constitute the basic units of local government.
In wind engineering, the possible extreme wind velocities constitute the basic targets in risk evaluations.
The conservation and enhancement of the values of all three orders constitute the basic moral objective of every people.
Such aggregates constitute the basic unit of which the solid Earth is comprised and typically form recognizable and mappable volumes.
