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Example sentences for "based"

Lexicographically close words:
base; baseball; baseboard; baseboards; baseborn; baseless; baselessness; baselevel; baseline; baselines
  1. In 1772, in a memoir based upon comprehensive historical studies, he defended the Prussian claims to certain provinces of Poland.

  2. The present article is based on the above-mentioned and various detached writings, supplemented by original research.

  3. Modern research, however, based largely on the inscriptional records, has shown that there was no such king, and that the real facts are very different.

  4. The classification here adopted is based on Sharp's scheme, with the addition of suggestions from some of the most recent authors--especially Borner and Enderlein.

  5. Reductions, based on standard magnitudes of 919 southern stars, observed by Herschel in sequences of relative brightness, were published by W.

  6. In a prefatory letter Hesychius mentions that his lexicon is based on that of Diogenianus (itself extracted from an earlier work by Pamphilus), but that he has also used similar works by Aristarchus, Apion, Heliodorus and others.

  7. The chief source of information is a life written by St Jerome; it was based upon a letter, no longer extant, written by St Epiphanius, who had known Hilarion.

  8. Bhatika, which seems to be based on the name of the Bhatti tribe, to which the rulers of Jesalmer belong.

  9. Rajamriga ka, a treatise based on the Brahma-Siddhanta of Brahmagupta (b.

  10. Higdon was the author of a long chronicle, one of several such works based on a plan taken from Scripture, and written for the amusement and instruction of his society.

  11. From the earliest period, the social and political system of the Chinese has been based upon educational qualifications.

  12. It is also due to the fact that it is a stereotyped system, based upon an ancient usage and custom, concerned with the past and ancient tradition rather than present or future progress.

  13. It will be remembered that those who before Champollion had undertaken the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphics, had based their efforts on the theory that these signs were mainly ideographic.

  14. The literature of this library was entirely based on that of ancient Sumir.

  15. These alphabetic values were based upon the spelling of the name and titles in the ancient Zend.

  16. My conceptions of freedom were crude, but I began to feel that my revolt was just, and was based upon the terrible injustice whereby the many must toil so that the few may live in splendour.

  17. And, I, like other people, have deep respect for a consistent and courageous life, based upon a principle or principles which I may not hold myself.

  18. I related clearly and succinctly the facts upon which my belief was based and of the description given of my wife's companion by the hotel-manager in Florence.

  19. The association of ideas, upon which is based the unity of the continuous life of the individual, with the pervading sense of personal identity, has been aptly called the 'cohesion of the moral world.

  20. The Government, in whose hands are the securities, and who furnish the circulation based thereon, will control this matter and restrain the issue to its proper bounds.

  21. This is not a mere technical rule, but one which is based upon experience, and sustained by the most exalted morality.

  22. Every dollar of the security upon which the currency is based must be deposited in the treasury vaults: in other words, the wealth of every individual citizen is under Government lock and key.

  23. Every individual State has had not only its own system of banking, but its own separate and distinct currency; a currency oftentimes based upon an insufficient security, and possessing only a local par value.

  24. As we rise in the order of being the number of similar members becomes less; their structure appearing based on the principle of two things united by a third;--a constant type even in matter of the Triune Existence.

  25. And it is certain that Tycho Brahe's wonderful mass of observations, with the splendid generalisations based on them by Kepler, are never mentioned in his writings.

  26. Calvinism had created a new spiritual power based on the free individual interpretation of Scripture, in close alliance with the alleged rights of conscience and with the spirit of republican liberty.

  27. And it is really on expediency, understood in the largest sense, that the claims of the New Monarchy are based by Hobbes.

  28. Mill's Logic, the most important English contribution to philosophy since Hume, is based on Hume's theory of knowledge, amended and supplemented by some German and French ideas.

  29. And his chemistry was based on the atomic theory which Bacon rejected.

  30. It is Browning's personal reply to the critics, and is based on his own religious philosophy.

  31. Now, my view of the question is not based on either of these hypotheses.

  32. The story of the disguise was a silly slander, based upon the trifling fact that for this night journey Lincoln wore a traveling cap instead of his hat.

  33. Recognition, he was to say, could be based only on the assumption that these States were a self-sustaining power.

  34. The pretensions and extravagances of that sect were based on the prophecies of Daniel.

  35. What I mean is, that I can read Mr. Hambleton's true character, and I know it to be based upon fixed and high-toned principles.

  36. Clutch-size The average clutch-size of the Bell Vireo in Kansas, based on thirty-three records, is 3.

  37. Second Broods The curve based on 66 nesting records of the Bell Vireo representing the breeding activity in northeastern Kansas demonstrates a tendency toward double-broodedness (fig.

  38. Breeding season in northeastern Kansas based on the number of completed clutches in each 10-day period from May through July.

  39. My data, based on incubation beginning with the second egg, indicate that the female incubates more often daily than the male (fig.

  40. Nolan (1960) recently completed an extensive report based on a small, banded population at Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana.

  41. He thinks that the concept of territory should be based on exclusive use of an area by its occupants, and not so much the defense by which they maintain it.

  42. These notebook reflections are only offered as being based on the rules which regulate my own work at the moment, for many of which I claim no universal application and have promised no lasting regard.

  43. Can the art of agriculture be based upon anything but the restitution of a disturbed equilibrium?

  44. For reasons similar, should not all Christian electors refuse to identify themselves with a constitution and government which are based on principles subversive of independence and liberty?

  45. I had never yet read an historical romance that I can make sure of, and probably my attempt must have been based almost solely upon the facts of Irving's history.

  46. Estimates of the amount of fat based on the measurement of the specific gravity of the subject, often used in the past, have never been satisfactory.

  47. Whole body counting is an improvement over potassium determination based on chemical analysis of body fluids.

  48. But a mere licking, no matter which side wins, doesn't last long enough for any general good unless the licking is based on principle and the principle is thereby established as right!

  49. That your Petitioners humbly submit that the present law on the subject is based upon sound principles, and has in the main been found to be efficient in its operation.

  50. Prayer is based on the supposition of his personality.

  51. Newman can give to an objection based on distinct statements of scripture itself.

  52. Prayer, then, is based on the changeableness of an unchangeable being, and therefore valueless.

  53. This opinion was based solely upon the characters of the plant, as the originator, the late G.

  54. Here Ibn Maskawaih follows Aristotle, and reproduces his argument based on the fact of physical motion.

  55. I thought that such beliefs based on mere authority were equally entertained by Jews, Christians, and followers of other religions.

  56. But the fact that conception is based on perception, should not lead us to ignore the great difference between the nature of the concept and the percept.

  57. This argument of the realist is based on a complete misunderstanding of the idealist position.

  58. It would simply lead to the overturning of God's moral providence, which is based upon, and carried on in conjunction with, the highest wisdom.

  59. If our creed on this subject is to be based on the Bible, it leaves us in no doubt upon the matter.

  60. These are all based upon the trustworthiness of consciousness, and if this is false we have no foundation to build upon.

  61. There was a rejection and a choosing, but each was based on state or personal condition.

  62. Trust and love are based upon the perception of the true and the good.

  63. On a brazen pillar in this edifice the terms of the treaty on which the league was based were written, and there they remained for centuries.

  64. The moment is one that has been fixed in the memory of men for all time by a proverbial expression based upon an apochryphal event that might well have happened upon the banks of the little Rubicon.

  65. Footnote: The orations of Cicero against Verres are based upon information which the orator gathered by personally examining witnesses at the scenes of the rascality he unveiled.

  66. They replied that the spot could not be made firm until that on which Rome's greatness was based had been cast into the chasm, but that then the state would prosper.

  67. It was mainly based on the enjoyment of earthly pleasures.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "based" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    based economy; based largely; based primarily; based upon