But this crisis does have more of a basis in reality than in years past — the French, at least, think so.
The stability of administered prices is counted by some observers as an advantage in its provision of a basis for planning.
And yet that fact was not, in itself, much of a basis for distancing himself from Moore's positions: Trump had presented himself as torn between the two men, and Moore, ironically, had positioned himself as the true Trumpist candidate.
Mr. Padilla has been slapped with the legally dubious designation of "enemy combatant," and in the administration's view that is enough of a basis for holding him until the cessation of hostilities in the war against terror.
A campaign as sour and pernickety as the one run by Scottish Labour via Better Together was never going to provide much of a basis for the renewal Scottish Labour so desperately needs.
Still, that is a noticeable increase on last year's average of just seven-tenths of a basis point, according to Bloomberg Financial Markets, and it hit a high of seven basis points -- 10 times the 2000 average -- on Jan . 11
Also, some of his original motives in the Ukrainian crisis, such as Russia's security vis-à-vis NATO, the affinity between parts of Ukraine and Russia, and genuine pro-Russian sentiments in Crimea, may have more of a basis than the West was ready to admit.
Once described by the American critic Stanley Kaufmann as a "reputation in search of a basis", Paltrow was destined from birth to make a film about the high priestess of angst, as they were obviously not going to give the role to Angelina Jolie or Queen Latifah.
"Without a palaeography professor such as David Ganz, not only will King's be sorely deprived of a basis on which to teach almost every other university discipline," says Alexandra Maccarini, "but the study of humanities everywhere will suffer from the absence of a devoted specialist in the subject".
"Half the electorate is really not happy at this point with the president's leadership, and so that doesn't provide members of the House with much of a basis for thinking there will be coattails for them to ride on," said James E. Campbell, a professor of political science at the State University at Buffalo.
It does not give Sheikh Hasina's Awami League (AL), which has ruled since 2009, much of a basis for another term.In this section Another beating Bruised, bloodied and probably broken Stirring the pot The trouble with democracy ReprintsMany polling stations saw almost no voters, then suspiciously large numbers of ballots cast late in the day.
