Sentence examples for had no base from inspiring English sources
Some dismissed the terror alert as political maneuvering that had no base in fact.
In this, Cruz echoed the essential perspective of his party: that these states, where he had no base, were a useful backdrop for campaigning, but not a place to seek Republican votes.
But the new law ended what was known as the race to the courthouse and sought, instead, to give control of shareholder cases to investors with the greatest monetary losses, generally institutional clients, like pension funds; Lerach had no base among those kinds of clients.
For years, the conventional wisdom in Washington, at least at the State Department and Central Intelligence Agency, has been that exiled leaders like Ahmad Chalabi, the driving force behind the Iraqi National Congress, had no base of support inside Iraq and therefore were not likely to be players in postwar politics.
"Previously, the Peshmerga had no base and lived in mountains and caves, surviving through all means.
They have no base in Afghanistan.
This is us having no base'.
Unlike Italy, it has marginalised its Communist party, which has no base in the trade unions.
And, unlike Citigroup, Merrill Lynch or Morgan Stanley, Goldman has no base of retail investors who might complain about such a move.
"Maria Miller has discovered that she has no base of support in the Conservative party, other than in Downing Street, and no base of support in the country at large.
