Sentence examples for the former basis from inspiring English sources

Irrespective of previous social differences (e.g. of wealth or caste), refugees all became equal in that they lost their livelihoods and property and became dependent on aid; livestock, the former basis of wealth, were nowhere to be seen.

So to summarize the former basis for our apparent hysteria, then: We had four cases diagnosed out of a population of over 300 million of us, and the apparent risk to anyone not actually touching people sick with Ebola was absolutely zero.

The former, on the basis of patient age, are potentially aggressive tumors and the latter, on the basis of ER and HER2 co-expression, may be tamoxifen resistant [ 12, 16].

He suggests I start with the former on the basis that this is the best place for those who aren't very good at it.

Thereafter, a simplified model was derived from the former on the basis of certain assumptions.

Without proposing to account for the former on the basis of the latter, we would hold that phenomenal character is sufficient for intentionality.

For our current issue of scientific change, what this means is that theory and experimental evidence were selected together, not the former on the basis of the latter (as a naive empiricist account would have it).

He thinks we can know banal facts (e.g., we ate breakfast) without knowing limiting/elusive claims they entail (e.g., the past is real) so long as those limiting/elusive claims are true, but we cannot then turn around and employ the former as our basis for knowing the latter.

The former established the basis of the SDO's nursing and midwifery research programme over the following years.

Control item performance correlated roughly with test item performance (see Supplementary Appendix B), so we used the former as the basis for each Turker's Bayes factor.

That would have been on a short-term basis – the former Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez was also discussed at the time – and, like the Spaniard, Capello would have considered the role only on a more permanent basis.