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Sentences ending with basis

His ledger, take-it-altogether, would not show a balance on the right side; but perhaps the losses on his books will turn out to be credits in a world where accounts are kept on a different basis. [5]
I hope you won't trifle with him, and let him get the notion that he's coming on any other basis. [8]
Instead of that, we took it into our system, and it's being put on a permanent basis. [4]
Society doesn't rest upon any such basis. [8]
We have seen to-day that every shade of popular opinion is represented here, with Freedom, or rather Free Soil, as the basis. [7]
I had systematized those, and put the service on an effective and righteous basis. [5]
Why not put the whole system of criminal jurisprudence and procedure for the suppression of crime upon a sensible and scientific basis? [4]
Her enemies charge that she surreptitiously took from Quimby a peculiar system of healing which was mind-cure with a Biblical basis. [5]
He liked to talk about the inflated currency, and it seemed plain to him that his condition would somehow be improved if we could get to a specie basis. [4]
Whenever this question shall be settled, it must be settled on some philosophical basis. [7]

Short sentences using basis

Concealment--that's the basis of it. [5]

Sentences containing basis two or more times

In that information we shall have a stern, unbending basis of facts--a basis in no wise subject to whim, caprice, or local interest. [7]
He insisted, therefore, upon its being changed from the basis upon which the fathers of the government left it to the basis of its perpetuation and nationalization. [7]
Judge Douglas could not let it stand upon the basis which our fathers placed it, but removed it, and put it upon the cotton-gin basis. [7]
But upon that event I became convinced that either I had been resting in a delusion, or the institution was being placed on a new basis, a basis for making it perpetual, national, and universal. [7]

More example sentences with the word basis in them

You yourself, in your law practice, are always insisting upon the sacredness of contract as the very basis of our civilization. [9]
They were not youngsters, either of them; but they had the spring of youth in them, and a deep basis of strength and force; and they knew the veld and the veld people. [11]
I am jealous, yes, I own I am jealous of any word, spoken or written, that would tend to impair that birthright of reverence which becomes for so many in after years the basis of a deeper religious sentiment. [6]
Mark Twain's contracts with Bliss for the publication of his books on the subscription plan had been made on a royalty basis, beginning with 5 per cent. [5]
Luigi went on, with animation: "Both of us get a bath for one ticket, theater seat for one ticket, pew-rent is on the same basis, but at peep-shows we pay double. [5]
This shows the whole field, on the basis of the election of 1856. [7]
It may be well to look at the prospects before us, if a peace is established on the basis of Southern independence, the only peace possible, unless we choose to add ourselves to the four millions who already call the Southern whites their masters. [6]
I said, if we tried to cut wages down to a fifty-four hour basis we'd have a strike on our hands in every mill in Hampton,--didn't I? [9]
It is a very important problem, and has been a good deal discussed, and its solution would form one fixed, philosophical basis, upon which to estimate woman's character. [5]
When he had urged his case upon the basis of fresh information, he was drily told that the security was too scant, even for a king. [11]
His reputation rests upon a basis more substantial even than the numerous diplomas with which he is provided, than the membership of the different medical societies which have chosen him as their associate," etc., etc. [3]
We will now turn to the more intellectual emotions and faculties, which are very important, as forming the basis for the development of the higher mental powers. [1]
I have been trying, ever since I have been here, to ascertain the price of oranges; not for purposes of exportation, nor yet for the personal importation that I daily practice, but in order to give an American basis of fact to these idle chapters. [4]
If I were to rise and go forward--and I now felt something like a continued impulse, in spite of relaxations and revolts--I must master this knowledge, it must be my guide, form the basis of my creed. [9]
I would like to place the book on royalty basis plan with any one you would suggest. [5]
If the opportunity to make an attack arrived, a powerful fleet would be at her disposal, for which smaller ships also should now be built at Klysma, on the basis of the experience gained at Actium. [10]
It is time to inquire what basis this great reputation had in enduring qualities, what portion of it was due to local and favoring circumstances, and to make an impartial study of the author's literary rank and achievement. [4]
For one thing, to find a new basis for the support of such a parish. [9]
It was upon this basis, indeed, that Richard appealed to her in the first trying days of Lali's life among them. [11]
His own opinions, therefore, seem not to rest on a very firm basis, even in his own mind; and I suppose the world believes, and will continue to believe, that precisely on the substance of that change this whole agitation has arisen. [7]
The basis of the vast proprietary medicine business is popular ignorance and credulity. [4]
The recommendation of the Secretary for an organization of the militia upon a uniform basis is a subject of vital importance to the future safety of the country, and is commended to the serious attention of Congress. [7]
The study of the portraits, with the knowledge of some parts of the history of the persons they represented, and the consciousness of instincts inherited in all probability from these same ancestors, formed the basis of Myrtle's 'Vision. [6]
They're part of the game--their theories are the basis for an intelligent practice. [9]
Not only are the fears of mankind the whip to scourge and the bridle to restrain them, but they are the basis of an almost incalculable material interest. [6]
The opportunity and the disposition to labor make the basis of all our civilization. [4]
The basis of the book has a letter written by a wife to her husband at a critical time in his career when he had broken his promise to her. [11]
These reports are the basis of our knowledge and opinions. [4]
The commission conclude that the quotas for the draft should be based upon entire population, and they proceed upon this basis to give a table for the State of New York, in which some districts are reduced and some increased. [7]
It is insisted that eight duels a week--four for each of the two days--is too low an average to draw a calculation from, but I will reckon from that basis, preferring an understatement to an overstatement of the case. [5]
Uncle Mumford said that Cape Girardeau was the Athens of Missouri, and contained several colleges besides those already mentioned; and all of them on a religious basis of one kind or another. [5]
Again, if we take the Whig votes of the counties as shown by the late Presidential election as a basis, the thing is still worse. [7]
The basis of successful business is honesty; a business cannot thrive where the parties to it cannot trust each other. [5]
Theories, at a stretch, might be identified with 'over-beliefs' but when it comes to confusing our theories with facts, instead of recognizing them as theories, when it comes to living by 'over-beliefs' that have no basis in reason and observed facts,--that is fatal. [9]
Apparently their intercourse, so long as it should continue, was destined to be on the basis of intimacy in which it had begun. [9]
The effects of sixty-four medicinal substances, ascertained by one or both of these methods, are enumerated in the Materia Medica of Hahnemann, which may be considered as the basis of practical Homoeopathy. [3]
In order to show the axiom, similia similibus curantur (or like is cured by like), to be the basis of the healing art,--"the sole law of nature in therapeutics,"--it is necessary, 1. [3]
And when that settlement house is built, I'll guarantee it will be run on a business basis. [9]
But in another sense the dead man was not himself; and in that case all compliments and affection lavished there were wasted, and a sufficient basis for jealousy. [5]
An English citizen said: "In the early part of this century Mauritius was used by the French as a basis from which to operate against England's Indian merchantmen; so England captured the island and also the neighbor, Bourbon, to stop that annoyance. [5]
I had a respect for the logical basis of this singular phenomenon. [6]
Intelligent and honest reporting of whatever interests the public is the sound basis of all journalism. [4]
Hodder did not relish half truths; and he felt that, however scant his intercourse in the future might be with Alison Parr, he would have liked to have kept it on that basis of frankness in which it had begun. [9]
Presently you will reach a new stage of development, then your progress will be easier; will proceed on a simpler basis, anyway. [5]
This error of premises leads to error of conclusion in every statement of matter as a basis. [5]
This gives a philosophical basis for a permanent policy of encouragement. [7]
If damages are paid on that basis, it means the daily inspection of every car which passes over their lines. [9]
But I found out that the schoolmistress had a vein of charity about her, which had hitherto been worked on a small silver and copper basis, which made her think less, perhaps, of luxuries than even I did,--modestly as I have expressed my wishes. [6]
It has invented others which form the basis of long series of well-known composite substances. [3]
But call it only a thousand to be perfectly safe; five thousand reward, multiplied by a thousand, gives us a dead sure cash basis of--what? [5]
However, it is one of the privileges of wealth to lighten the cares and duties of maternity, and the enlarged household was arranged upon a basis that did not interfere with the life of fashion and the charitable engagements of the mother. [4]
It was always on the basis of my earthly habits, experiences, and limitations. [6]
Agatha's only in on a sisterly- brotherly basis. [11]
Pfuel was one of those hopelessly and immutably self-confident men, self-confident to the point of martyrdom as only Germans are, because only Germans are self-confident on the basis of an abstract notion--science, that is, the supposed knowledge of absolute truth. [2]
On the basis of these necessarily untrustworthy reports Napoleon gave his orders, which had either been executed before he gave them or could not be and were not executed. [2]
At the basis of the works of all the modern historians from Gibbon to Buckle, despite their seeming disagreements and the apparent novelty of their outlooks, lie those two old, unavoidable assumptions. [2]
The industrial development of the United States was of course a necessary and desirable thing, but the economic doctrine which formed the basis of American institutions proved to be unsuited to industrialism, and introduced unforeseen evils that were a serious menace to the Republic. [9]
The philosophical student of the origin of New World society may find food for reflection in the "materiality" of the basis of the civilization of New York. [4]
These little bits of paper mean your gold and your silver and your copper, Professor; and you will certainly break up and go to pieces, if you don't hold on to your metallic basis. [6]
I ask, too, of Judge Douglas and his friends why we shall not again place this institution upon the basis on which the fathers left it. [7]
At the basis of his schemes was organization and the economy which concentrated and conserved energy begets, together with its profit. [11]
This legitimate peculiarity of each individual which used to excite and irritate Pierre now became a basis of the sympathy he felt for, and the interest he took in, other people. [2]
As the basis of all the rest, you must have all those traits of character which fit you to enter into the most intimate and confidential relations with the families of which you are the privileged friend and counsellor. [3]
Mrs. March saw nothing but ruin ahead, and began tacitly to plan a retreat to Boston, and an establishment retrenched to the basis of two thousand a year. [8]
I have made no change in my plans on the basis of a breach. [11]
Clemens, however, had never been fully satisfied, and his brother Onion had more than once urged him to demand a specific contract on the half-profit basis. [5]
Variability is the necessary basis for the action of selection, and is wholly independent of it. [1]
Herodotus has been my guide too in the leading features of Cambyses' character; indeed as he was born only forty or fifty years after the events related, his history forms the basis of my romance. [10]
They think that men will eventually come together on the basis of one or two or more common articles of belief, and form a great unity. [6]
He had also mapped out a campaign against the Maroons, which had one grave demerit--it was planned on a basis of ordinary warfare and not with Jamaica conditions in mind. [11]
Others had by luck and persistence made money--the basis of their fortunes; but Wallstein had showed them how to save those fortunes and make them grow; had enabled them to compete successfully with the games of other great financiers in the world's stock-markets. [11]
No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. [5]
I am not large, but I am built on a business basis. [5]
He found himself involved, and quite naturally, in unpremeditated activities, running errands, forming human ties on a human basis. [9]
Should you succeed in reestablishing St. John's on what you call a free basis --and in my opinion you will not--even then the money, you would live on, and which supported the church, would be directly or indirectly derived from corporations. [9]
You think that he--Carnac Grier--would marry any woman on that basis? [11]
A born intriguer, he still was above intrigue, justifying it on the basis that life was all sport. [11]
The evidence you have given of a close knowledge of the household of our Jean Jacques does not have its basis in hearsay, but in acute personal observation. [11]
I think I have fully answered him when he asks me why we cannot let it alone upon the basis where our fathers left it, by showing that he has himself changed the whole policy of the government in that regard. [7]
Why the Barbilles have ever in the past built up life on a basis of thought and action, and I have added philosophy--the science of thought and act. [11]
I believe there has been as yet discovered no other basis of government so safe, so stable as popular suffrage, but the fathers never contemplated a suffrage without intelligence. [4]
She saw no harm in having a man as a friend on a basis of intimacy which drew the line at any possibility of divorce-court proceedings. [11]
Though this plan had been drawn up on the supposition that Moscow was still in our hands, it was approved by the staff and accepted as a basis for action. [2]
As to all good literature, the interests of these three are identical if the relations of the three are on the proper basis. [4]
It must, therefore, go to the public on the basis of its merits alone, and as a picture of the peace-life of the great North West. [11]
The further I go the more I am convinced that there is a positive basis for things. [4]
It's made to give artificial people a society basis on a little money--too much money, of course, for what they get. [8]
Human song is generally admitted to be the basis or origin of instrumental music. [1]
A few had found their way into the Northern States, but none of them in sufficient numbers to constitute danger or to afford a basis for political power. [7]
If we can find no evidence of its truth that stands the test of fair criticism, we may at least believe that it had some slight basis on which to rest. [4]
They very commonly fall into a routine, the basis of which is going to some lounging-place or other, a bar-room, a reading-room, or something of the kind. [6]
My benefactor then explained to me fully the meaning of the Great Square of creation and pointed out to me that the numbers three and seven are the basis of everything. [2]
This basis of existence is calm and unexaggerated; life is reckoned by centimes, not by dollars. [4]
He declares the dividend of credit for defeating Lecompton upon a basis which seems unprecedented and incomprehensible. [7]
It was a detailed list of the charges against her, and formed the basis of the trial. [5]
There were first courses of three sorts of cold meat, accompanied with two sorts of salad; the one, a composite, with a potato basis, of all imaginable things that are eaten. [4]
The present international copyright, which primarily concerns itself with the manufacture of books, rests upon an unintelligible protective tariff basis. [4]
We have to contrive, therefore, another basis for a class (to use an un-American expression), in a sort of culture or training, which can be perpetual, and which cannot be ordered for money, like a ball costume or a livery. [4]
Even inequality of condition is the basis of progress, the incentive to exertion. [4]
He appointed a commission to reduce the substance of the sixty-six articles to twelve compact lies, as a basis for the new attempt. [5]

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