Sentence examples for less on the basis from inspiring English sources

In the wake of Nureyev's 1961 defection, the Kirov became, in effect, "a mini police state" that rewarded its dancers "less on the basis of merit than according to one's history of cooperation" with Communist witch hunts.

He also believes that some species advance toward protected status less on the basis of science than on political pressure: lawsuits on behalf of one creature or another can sometimes force the Fish and Wildlife Service into action, and the service's limited scientific budget and lack of required analysis, he said, then makes it difficult to substantiate the claims.

Most processed foods are marketed less on the basis of taste than on convenience, image, predictability, price point and health claims -- all of which are easier to get right in a processed food product than its flavor.

All proceed, more or less, on the basis that verbal communication has been fatally corrupted by political or literary abuse and can be rescued only by a total dismantling and reassembly.

As with everything and everyone around the Yankees, the outcome of this experiment will be evaluated less on the basis of baseball logic and mainly on the mood of the owner after the last game of the season.

The protections contained in the amendment have been determined less on the basis of what the Constitution says than according to what it has been interpreted to mean, and, as such, its constitutional meaning has inherently been fluid.

He is no less convinced, on the basis of the other images circulated in the media, that the remaining codices are fake, given that they contain similar images.

He chooses to go to Spain – the nation that would come to define his adulthood – more or less arbitrarily, on the basis that he knows the Spanish for "Will you please give me a glass of water?" It turns out to be an important phrase, for Lee sets out on his great walk in early June, at the start of the fearsome Iberian summer.

The 100-day NRM for this trial is anticipated to be 20% or less, calculated on the basis of all 12 patients to be included.

Stigma as originally defined occurs when society labels someone as tainted and less desirable on the basis of an attribute that marks them out as different [ 15].

4. Induction: ability to arrive at a general rule, which is more or less probable on the basis of a finite number of observations.