Sentence examples for predicated on former from inspiring English sources

"The complaint is predicated on former President Zedillo's actions as president, not private conduct," Harold Hongju Koh, a State Department legal adviser and a professor at Yale Law School, wrote in a letter accompanying the filing.

It is the love of the inferior for the superior, predicated on the former's privation and subsequent desire to unite with the superior.

But they are all predicated on one thing — speed.

At the time of the Kraft bid, former business secretary Lord Mandelson slammed the Kraft deal as one predicated on short-term gain.

Bourdain offered a refreshing take: one predicated on #nofilter.

It will now be up to Malone to determine what, if any role Thomas – whose decision to sign with the Nuggets was largely predicated on his trust in his former coach, and whose pride and the chip on his shoulder both outsize his (listed) 5'9" frame – should have in the regular rotation.

"His growing up was predicated on not giving in, not capitulating," Alex Netchvolodoff, a friend and former colleague of Thomas's on the staff of Senator John Danforth, told me.

How to explain the candidate's strange fealty to a former KGB agent whose career has been predicated on hating America?

For Diane Ravitch, a historian of education and former assistant education secretary, the program is predicated on "the idea that you can't trust teachers".

The former Rhode Island governor, whose path to the White House was predicated on knocking Webb out of the race, could not contain his jubilation as he told supporters in Concord, New Hampshire, that his campaign is now "solidly in the single digits".

2. Petitioner, as a former President of the United States, is entitled to absolute immunity from damages liability predicated on his official acts.