But there is no firm basis for picking a price.
Mr. Obama's proposals provide a firm basis for both the Senate and House to move forward with comprehensive reforms.
Because we argued -- And I believe that there's a very firm basis for saying that that process already had violated Article II of the Constitution.
Downing Street this morning said Mr Hollande agreed with Mr Cameron that the deal was a "firm basis" for reaching an agreement.
The pianist responded that since the third suite was intended for mostly private consumption, there was no firm basis for any public performance tradition.
In its absence, Nessa moves back in with her mother, manages to find a job (behind the counter of an ice-cream stand), and hopes to provide a firm basis for their life together.
The problem, according to the critics, is that since postmodernists deny the possibility of describing matters of fact objectively, they leave us with no firm basis for either condemning the terrorist attacks or fighting back.
Gallienus' double denarius of copper and silver, leached to give a more silver-rich surface, marked a monetary breakdown, only partially cured when Diocletian and Constantine again made gold the firm basis for supplementary pure silver and abundant copper coinage.
It was immediately clear to all scientists concerned that these new ideas achieving a high density in the thermonuclear fuel by compression using a fission primary provided for the first time a firm basis for a fusion weapon.
An electronegativity scale (listing of elements in descending order of their tendency to attract and hold bonding electrons) provided a firm basis for the oxidation-state assignments on which oxidation-reduction definitions have become based.
Brazilian exploration and settlement far to the west of the line of demarcation in subsequent centuries laid a firm basis for Brazil's claims to vast areas of the interior of South America.
