Sentence examples for upon firm from inspiring English sources

Öz Beg based his power upon firm control of Crimea and had extensive relations with the Genoese and Venetians, who controlled the main ports there.

Indeed, older authors — from great thinkers like Herder and Otto Bauer to the propagandists who followed their footsteps — took great pains to ground normative claims upon firm ontological realism about nations: nations are real, bona fide entities.

Newton's greatness lies in part due to the fact that he places physics upon firm mathematical ground, in sharp contrast to Cartesian physics, its leading competitor of the time.

These recommendations are based upon firm evidence when they relate to the entire group of patients with colon cancer, but must be questioned in the different substages.

We have placed our work upon firm theoretical foundations and the resulting theory is both grounded in the data and informed by established theory.

The tone of Mr. Giuliani's direct-mail letters and his reliance upon firms in Virginia that have a reputation for appealing to staunch conservatives have elicited repeated criticism from Mrs. Clinton's campaign.

Relying upon aggregated data for 1995 2005, as well as upon firm-level and secondary data from the Chilean salmon farming industry, the determinants of ISO 9000 and ISO 14001 diffusion at country, industry, and firm level, in Latin American are analysed.

This paper provides new empirical evidence about the impact of various technological policies upon firms' innovative behaviour.

It draws upon firms and port theories to design a co-evolutionary framework, which is later refined with insights gained from an empirical study of the port context.

We set out to replace heuristics with methods based upon firmer theoretical consideration, and strongly expected that RAS, a tree metric which takes into account both ages and branch lengths, will outperform the alternatives.

After Alliance Property's land sales, the London Necropolis Company had been reduced to Brookwood Cemetery itself and Frederick W. Paine, a Kingston-upon-Thames firm of funeral directors which had been bought by the LNC in 1947.