In the 1920's and 1980's, speculative run-ups were followed by a painful relearning of certain basic truths.
De interpretatione (On Interpretation), which includes a statement of Aristotle's semantics, along with a study of the structure of certain basic kinds of propositions and their interrelations.
The voltage across a Josephson junction is known on theoretical grounds to be dependent only on the values of certain basic physical constants.
Vital sign, any of certain basic physiologic measures used in the initial clinical assessment of a patient during a physician's examination.
Technology, of course, is dependent on science, for it requires the discovery by science of certain basic patterns in nature that can be isolated and reproduced by industrial processes.
Part of the reason for the better-than-expected premium news is that health insurers have found ways to cut costs that do not involve turning away the sick or refusing to pay for treatment of certain basic illnesses.
The problem was that they thought they did know him because they were well aware of certain basic personal facts, which many Indians consider the most crucial: age, religion and family background.
Reading James Salter's haunting novel "A Sport and a Pastime," full of the twinned formality and sensuality of France, I encountered this passage: "Life is composed of certain basic elements," he says.
The constitution is preceded by the statement of certain basic principles, including the definition of Italy as a democratic republic, in which sovereignty belongs to the people (Article 1).
An examination of the report itself, in the context of certain basic rules of courtroom evidence, shows that it will be of little significance in the case against McVeigh... Tells about the evolution of a story broken by Pete Slover of the Dallas "Morning News" that McVeigh has confessed--to a defense investigator.
While her mission, along with her peers, was to strip dance of its most distracting elements of virtuosity and decoration, the recovery of certain basic principles – the power of simplicity and repetition – had an impact that has continued down the generations.
