Sentence examples for false basis from inspiring English sources

But the pressures of the meritocracy can sometimes put this love on a false basis.

These articles reveal the false basis on which the advocates for natural gas are attracting private investment and government subsidies.

President Bush has cut all financing for the population fund on the — false — basis that it supports China's family-planning program.

During a three hour televised grilling by the Commons foreign affairs select committee, Mr Campbell says: "The allegation made by the BBC defence correspondent, repeated in large parts of the media here and other parts of the world, is that the prime minister put to the country and to parliament a false basis for putting at risk the lives of British servicemen.

Then the BBC revealed that people were being told to declare themselves "self-employed", even when they were simply without work, on the false basis that they could claim more in in-work benefits than JSA – the real benefit, of course, accruing to the Work Programme provider who could then claim them as having been "helped".

It is often the case that opinions have a "false" basis, which is most clear in case of stereotypes and prejudices ("everybody knows that…").

But outside of these deals in particular, there is a special lesson here in the example of the real estate appraiser, Clark, who himself may not have promoted these deals but who is alleged to have provided the false factual basis that the other promoters relied upon in doing these deals.

When this is proven false, the basis of the entire system is thrown into question.

"The allegations against him are false and without basis.

Melanchthon declared the papal claim to be false and without basis in Scripture or history.

Sentences such as "It is raining" were considered true or false on the basis of how well they corresponded to real-world conditions.