"We ended up with a cost-of-living, transactional politics which drew on polling figures that were based on sand.
He busied himself with chord substitutions to disguise the harmonic movement of well-known songs and shied away from climactic improvisations, instead developing figures that were based on his own invented shapes more than on the latent power of the material itself.
The companies agreed to pay the states more than $240 billion over 25 years, a figure that was based on how much the states had paid for health insurance.
Ms. Hanover received $6.8 million in a settlement, a figure that was based in part on his anticipated earnings and was tax-free because it was considered to be "equitable distribution" -- a division of the couple's assets, rather than alimony.
The monitor weighs the corncobs as they are harvested and comes up with a tons-per-acre figure that is based on the speed of the combine size of the swath it is harvesting.
These types of pensions promise a fixed annual income throughout retirement (a figure that's based on your final salary and the number of years you've worked at a company).
These types of pensions promise a fixed annual income throughout retirement (a figure that's based on your final salary and the number of years you've has worked at a company).
But Scottish government officials said there was no official source for the first minister's figure; that was based on an extrapolation, they said, from new-voter figures released by some councils.
"You know, when I say to you to make this more turned in, this way, more like a stick figure — that's based on John Held's photos and cartoons of that time," she said, holding up a John Held, Jr., cartoon of two knock-kneed Charleston dancers from her information packet.
Usually, the performance of a discriminant model is presented with figures of merit that are based on the number of correctly recognized samples.
