Sentence examples for plainly based from inspiring English sources

Obama's initial response was plainly based on a determination not to take sides.

"Nothing but the Truth," which Mr. Lurie wrote and directed, is at once plainly based on Ms. Miller's story and yet hardly a docudrama.

Villain (1971), featuring Richard Burton as a gay East End gangster plainly based on Ronnie, is a limp and unexciting movie, memorable only because it inspired the excellent stunt-casting in Sexy Beast of Ian MacShane, Burton's boyfriend in Villain.

Clooney is Lee Gates, a loudmouth TV stock pundit-cum-shock jock with a razzmatazz-filled live show (bring on the dancing girls!) that's plainly based on CNBC's investment tips show Mad Money, hosted by Jim Cramer (last spotted receiving a lengthy and humiliating post-crash tongue-lashing from Jon Stewart on The Daily Show).

(Doc. No. 163, 4/12/13 Dunnegan Decl., Ex. B, Mar. 16, 2013 Dep. of Jean-Pierre Dubé 191 3-11). But, when read in context of Dr. Dubé's other testimony about this very subject, his opinion is plainly based on the conclusions he was able to draw from his training and experience.

"It is absolutely untrue any unlawfully obtained material was ever received by me at the News of the World's offices in Dublin". But the programme also has evidence that while at the paper he paid agency Southern Investigations for a number of "exclusive" stories plainly based on confidential police material.

That decision, according to his testimony, plainly was based upon the Committee's appraisal of its information about petitioner.

Watson wrote that the ban goes against the Immigration and Nationality Act and "plainly discriminates based on nationality" in a way that is "antithetical" to American principles.

The ban also "plainly discriminates based on nationality in the manner that the Ninth Circuit has found antithetical to both Section 1152(a) and the founding principles of this Nation," it noted.

Judge Derrick K. Watson, one of two federal judges to halt the administration's previous travel ban, didn't rule on the policy's constitutionality, instead holding that the latest ban oversteps the president's statutory authority to set immigration policy and "plainly discriminates based on nationality" without providing compelling reasons to do so.

AN authority on Connecticut's affordable-housing law says the state Department of Economic and Community Development granted the town of Darien an affordable-housing moratorium based on "plainly inaccurate information".