Sentence examples for main basis from inspiring English sources

He said that the ruling would be the main basis for the defense's appeal.

Agriculture and dairy farming probably formed the main basis of the economy at Çatalhüyük.

The Roundtable could just as well have said "nearly all Americans reject tests as the main basis for promotion".

He later added: "You know the main basis for choosing to give up is for the sake of family feelings.

Professor Rotberg said empirical data comparable across countries — the main basis for his and Ms. Gisselquist's rankings — were generally not available for the previous year.

The main basis is understood to be that the lesser verdict of manslaughter was not offered by the judge to the panel at the original court martial.

European or Ashkenazi Jews – later the main basis both for America's or Britain's Jewish populations and for Israel's foundation – are mainly descended from them.

"We were told the written bid document, and the finding of the inspection delegation who came to look at our facilities, would be the main basis on which a decision was made," Mawhinney said.

It's hard to imagine that savvy hedge fund financiers would gamble tens of millions of dollars on paintings if experienced sensibility were still the market's main basis of attribution.

Even after the USSR was deconstructed 25 years ago, the same inner system remained... Soviet culture remains the main basis for people's identity here and is stored deep in their subconscious".

Medievalists, following the French scholar Joseph Bédier, sometimes revert to the traditional practice, to which their training may dispose, of selecting a single witness as the main basis of the text.