The phrase "optimistic basis" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a hopeful attitude with which one approaches a task, situation, or plan. For example: We developed our plan on an optimistic basis, believing that we would be successful in our endeavors.
Even on that optimistic basis, states are not putting enough aside.
In a triumphant end to the books, St Aubyn provides a moving and optimistic basis for seeking real independent volition.
On that optimistic basis, a multiple of 30 times revenue is certainly rich, but not necessarily absurd.
With Bolton finally on the verge of new ownership, Lennon would be perfectly entitled to bitterness about the comparatively optimistic basis on which he was sold the job.
The party now finds itself at about 35% – which, on the possibly optimistic basis of a two-thirds turnout, would give it the support of just over 23% of the voting public.
"Even on an optimistic basis, the UK labour market is not going to deliver an unemployment rate at 7% for six to 12 months at the very earliest, while inflationary pressures are under control.
(Not to mention the "building your product on a just-in-time basis rather than optimistic three-month forecast" part).
The states granted these generous benefits on the basis of recklessly optimistic assumptions, such as that their pension funds' assets would continue to generate the same bumper returns as during the equity bull market of the 1980s and 1990s.It gets worse.
Attention of the owner of a restaurant is always short, and to expect that person to use Foursquare on a chronic basis is perhaps optimistic.
The raters, who were supposedly naive about graphology, even "discovered" in the data set the same associations that graphologists claim exist, such as ascending handwriting being linked to an optimistic personality (there is no scientific basis for this).
There was a difference in optimism before the treatment where SK&P group was less optimistic than the control group; the basis of this is currently unclear.
