I do not know what party is going to accomplish it, but this widening of the political basis is as certain as the rising of the sun or the flowing of the tide.
The New York Assembly in February, 1865, passed a law putting the legal evidence of a married woman on the same basis as if she were a "femme sole.
The proposed basis of this Convention is as follows: The delegates appointed by existing State organizations shall be admitted, provided their number does not exceed, in each case, that of the Congressional delegation of the State.
But where do we get our ideas of what is morally right, and what is morally wrong, as the basis of our common law and jurisprudence?
But that there must be a code of morality common to all as the basis of our civilized jurisprudence, in which the rights of all center or unite and are equally protected, every reasonable mind must admit.
Therefore this wholebasis of theology and Scripture, though it does not admit of mathematical proof, may yet be accepted with the approval of our judgment.
Our certainty on the same subject can be founded on no other basis than that which served as foundation for the certainty of the prophets.
Scripture should be gathered from its own history, and not from the history of nature in general, which is the basis of philosophy.
Now the practical question was this: Was the treaty to be drafted on the basisof the existing state of possession or on the basis of the status before the war?
Meantime, wholly in the dark as to the forces which were working in their favor, the American commissioners set to work upon a draft of a treaty which should be their answer to the British offer of peace on the basis of uti possidetis.
He informed the American commissioners arrogantly that "the proposal of the President of the United States for proceeding to negotiate anew upon the basis of a treaty already solemnly concluded and signed, is a proposal wholly inadmissible.
A second conference only served to show the want of any common basis for negotiation.
In the Act of 1559, the intention was to take as the basis of the Prayer-Book then authorized the Book of the fifth and sixth years of Edward VI.
Doubtless, either from these organs, or from some other part of the circumjacent region, the glutinous secretion is at the same time poured out, which consolidates the mud, and forms the true basis of the tube.
This may be modified in all kinds of directions, the resulting organic structure may be of the utmost complexity, but the basis remains unchanged.
But in reality a sound judgment is formed, not on the basis of what some declare they cannot do without, but on the basis of what others actually do without, and suffer no observable loss in consequence.
Social phenomena in either civilised or uncivilised society furnishes no proof that institutions and customs rest upon a basis of physical force.
Sprenger, with two others, acting on the authority of the Popes, drew up the famous work, The Witch Hammer, which provided the basis for all subsequent works on the detection and punishment of witches.
And the reason for this is plain: The brain of the mystic, like that of the non-mystic, can only work on the basis of its acquired knowledge or experience.
We do not estimate the value of alcohol on the basis of those who declare they cannot do without it.
Christ, being a Jew, took for his basis a refined form of the old Jewish theism.
The higher forms of religion have their basis and origin in the existence of evil, but their justification and value depend on their power to remove it.
Mere acquiescence in dogma, such as a Christian creed, is not sufficient as a basis of religion and test of membership.
His teaching is formulated in severe and technical phraseology, yet the substance of it is so simple that many have criticized it as too obvious and jejune to be the basis of a religion.
The basis of these rules is the Pâtimokkha, the ancient confessional formula enumerating the offences which a monk can commit.
Subsequent generations forgot this prohibition, but it probably has a historical basis and it indicates the Buddha's desire to make his teaching popular.
But I think that the pantheistic view is the real basis of Indian religious thought.
In its origin the Buddha's celebrated doctrine that there is no permanent self in persons or things is not a speculative proposition, nor a sentimental lament over the transitoriness of the world, but a basis for religion and morals.
They frequently raise a structure of fiction on a slight basis of fact or on no basis at all.
The character of the successive appearances or tenements of the soul is determined by the law of Karma, which even more than metempsychosis is the basis of Indian ideas about the universe.
But though abundant examples of the propitiation of angry spirits can be cited, respect and consideration for the dead are the feelings which usually inspire these ceremonies at the present day and form the chief basis of family religion.
I am content to build happiness on any accidental basis that may lie near at hand; you are for making a world to suit your happiness.
For, Elfride, a secret of no importance at all may be made the basis of some fatal misunderstanding only because it is discovered, and not confessed.
That is to say, he had no firm basis for his conceptions, and he was aware that he had none.
They effected a transformation of religion, but, resting on no basis of philosophical acceptance of history, the transformation was only temporary.
A great part of it has been made the basis of silver certificates, a kind of currency that, by and by, will bring distress to commercial interests if the issues are maintained, or if they are materially increased.
To describe this charge, we will go back to the evening of the 2nd of July, and recall upon what basis the cautious Lee could undertake so fearful a responsibility.
But a friend, to my mind, is one you can deal with on a strict reciprocity basis like me and George have always done.
And then, we got into trouble of one or two kinds; and I reckon that got us on a better understandable basis than anything else did, unless it was the fact that we never had much personal use for each other's ways.
Doubtless the judgment of Shelley on the basis of his boyish poem "Queen Mab" was unfair, even as its surreptitious publication without his consent was unfair.
Could a Book without inherent authority be long maintained among intelligent peoples on the basis of artificial authority?
Say candidly, were not those heavenly black eyes the whole basis of all your reasoning on the subject?
This may seem an audacious thing to insinuate, but on no other basis can we reconcile the strange course of his courtship and the tempestuous chapters in his married life.
In fact, all this chain of events is the direct sequel of the old rivalry between Connacht and Ulster that forms the basis of Táin Bó Cuailnge and the Ulster cycle in general.
The Ulster stories have for their main basis the hostile relations between Ulster and Connacht.
Irish has itsbasis in a British pronunciation of Latin--that is, in Latin modified and changed as a spoken language among the Britons during the centuries of the Roman occupation.
It became the basis of the writing of Irish history, and was continued in Ireland, with an Irish section added, down to the early years of the seventh century.
Its basis is found in the prominence given in Irish literature to the aristocratic kindreds and in the Irish custom of naming territorial divisions by the names of the septs to which their lords belonged.
That, I think, is a fair summary of the prevailing notions as to the basis of what is called the clan system.
But notwithstanding Bede's testimony, it does not appear that Theodore's teaching had the effect of establishing the study of Greek on any permanent basis in England, not to say in Ireland.
In 1247 he built a castle at Sligo, as a basis of operations towards the Erne.
But the prosperity was founded on the basis of slavery.
These ecclesiastical computations were founded to some extent on parish records of baptisms and burials, but this basis became more and more precarious as the population increased.
At the present time American money is the basis and Dominican silver and copper is regarded merely as fractional currency, one peso Dominican being equivalent to twenty cents American.
Islâm problem lies at the basis of the question for all of them.
In the shortest possible time he has mobilized the greatest nation in the world to a war basis of such magnitude that its martial tread extends around the world.
Then may we commune with our intellectual equals on the basis of quid pro quo--horse and horse--“even Stephen.
To-day we estimate it upon the basis of its horrors, its seeming uselessness, the blight of its trail across our own dooryards.
True, I place little reliance upon the gossip of townsfolk, but at least I prefer to suppose that that gossip has, as our cultured Governor would say, 'a basis in fact.
Rather, that we recognise no basisfor action save the useful," corrected Bazarov.
As demonstrated above, they are usually associated with the physical peculiarities of the basis or acting material of the energy machine, and their peculiar function is to conserve or limit the extent of its action.
From general considerations, however, it appears that the material basis of this machine is to be found in the air medium which surrounds the two bodies.
One of them will pay for a shine, but then the shine isn't worth anything, either, so that is no basis of value.
Presently an informing person at my side explained that Turkish chronology is run on an altogether different basis from ours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "basis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
