Sentence examples for supposed basis from inspiring English sources

Scott said the increase in stop and search disproportionality showed that police intelligence, the supposed basis for the use of stop and search in London, unfairly targeted black youths while letting suspects from other communities off the hook.

When the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees derivatives markets, began looking into interest-rate setting in 2008, we were guided not only by questions about the decline of actual unsecured lending among banks, the supposed basis of Libor, but also by our founding statute, the Commodity Exchange Act.

However, using the coincidence of serotonin as the supposed basis for behavioural parallels between lobsters and humans – trumpeted during the Channel 4 interview, again to give off the impression of scientific authority – has been expertly dismantled by the biologist PZ Myers.

Macdonald – a barrister, whose role as director of public prosecutions between 2003 and 2008 made him one of the most senior legal figures in England and Wales – said under the government's guidance "the list of unacceptable topics might plausibly include much philosophical discourse, any Marxist analysis of a supposed class basis for our rule of law, and many atheist deconstructions of religion".

Examples include Malays in Malaysia, who earn less and learn less than their Chinese compatriots, and the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, who have long lagged behind the Tamils.Mr Sowell's insight is that regardless of the supposed moral basis for preferential policies, the results are often remarkably similar.

I care about the supposed scientific basis for the campaign.

Models can be subdivided according to the supposed genetic basis of adaptation: continuous (quantitative) or discrete.

This persuaded Jackson that the ecosystem of the Caribbean would have looked very different to the scenario that conservation biologists had supposed on the basis of information relating to the last couple of decades [29].

We find that the relationship between activity state and methylation state at the Avy allele is not the simple "all-or-none" pattern that has been supposed on the basis of less detailed methylation analyses.

The differences between these species, which make them pathogenic or not, are therefore not as great as might be supposed on the basis of their distinct behaviors and previous lists of virulence genes.

In fact, of the 26 patients whose methodological data were available, only 5 (including our patient) received a percutaneous renal biopsy, 1 patient received a computerized tomography (CT -guided renal biopsy, in 1 patient the diagnosis of amyloidosis was supposed on the basis of a gingival and intestinal biopsy [ 16].