Sentence examples for the only possible basis from inspiring English sources
In any equal partnership, between any two people, whether in a marriage or not, the only possible basis for sex is the mutual understanding that consent is an active process — to be offered freely, to be given freely, to be withdrawn just as freely.
An early version of such an argument can be found in Augustine and the Neo-Platonic tradition, but the canonical presentations of this sort of "possibility proof" are in Leibniz's Monadology (1714) and, much more elaborately, in Kant's book-length treatise called The Only Possible Basis for a Demonstration of the Existence of God (1763).
I should emphasize that I am not claiming – as some of my liberal nationalist colleagues do – that nationhood is the only possible basis for achieving progressive ends, or that there are no alternative ways of generating converging preferences on political units, or generating a solidaristic ethics of social membership.
And high value-added per man-hour is the only possible basis of sustainable high wages.
The only possible basis for comparison is that neither Barack Obama nor Sarah Palin is a white male.
Greater transparency for recognition of rights: this is the only possible basis for a deal between Washington and Tehran.
Justice Stevens argued that when the "only possible explanation" for the way lines were drawn was "a naked desire to increase partisan strength, then no rational basis exists" for not applying the equal protection doctrine.
Actually, the only possible choice.
The only possible reason for a woman to cover her hair, she argued, was to conform to a male interpretation of Islam, a dress code without a specific basis in the Qur'an.
"It is the only possible solution.
It's the only possible outcome.
