How to Use on the basis of in a Sentence

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• There appears to be a willingness to take big risks on the basis of trust.
  — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
• The reason was that these films were rejected on the basis of a lack of good taste.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
• The lawyers urged them to avoid drawing a new district solely on the basis of race.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Jan. 2024
• They are poised to grow as a school and as an athletic program on the basis of this run.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
• It’s triggered on the basis of what occurs or doesn’t occur in Texas.
  — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• Really great ideas—like hiring on the basis of skills rather than pedigree—might have two.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
• Friday's raid was conducted on the basis of a search warrant.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2023
• Success will be based on completing the course, with a tie being settled on the basis of the fastest drone.
  — New Atlas, 26 Nov. 2025
• People were often hired solely on the basis of their willingness to work.
  — Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
• Iraq must be dealt with on the basis of sovereignty and mutual respect, not as a proxy for other conflicts.
  — Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2024
• The claims were made on the basis of numbers described as arbitrary by experts, and not based on any research.
  — Emma Woollacott, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
• This device can exist in some finite set of states and can predict its own future state on the basis of its current one.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 June 2024
• Voters who use this heuristic choose candidates on the basis of a single issue.
  — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
• When relief supplies finally reached the city, they were distributed on the basis of race.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2024
• The Red Wings challenged on the basis of goalie interference but the goal stood.
  — Field Level Media, Reuters, 30 Nov. 2024
• Some Swifties have already claimed the song as their favorite, but purely on the basis of vibes, since no singles have been shared yet.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
• Richards says Gillings sold the role of Fintch’s glamorous ex-wife Bentley to her on the basis of his pitch.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
• Players are selected on the basis of fan vote, coaches’ vote and players’ vote, with each counting one-third.
  — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2025
• Leeds on the basis of… well, just being Leeds and making Elland Road a bit of a fortress.
  — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
• Smollett maintained the hate crime was real and pushed for his conviction to be thrown out on the basis of double jeopardy.
  — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 1 July 2026
• When the standards are changed from one person to another on the basis of gender, that red flag suggests that a glass ceiling is in play.
  — Abiola Salami, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• The program allocates tax credits to each state on the basis of their population.
  — Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
• The way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to start bringing our children together across class and across race.
  — John Blake, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
• At the workplace, it’s most often measured on the basis of promotions, awards or recognition.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• The bank already can’t discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion or gender.
  — Jeffrey Schweers, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2023
• Rather, the influencers who extol offal’s virtues seem to do so on the basis of its nutrient density.
  — Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
• Meta has agreed for the first time to stop targeting a Facebook user with ads on the basis of their personal data.
  — Emma Woollacott, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
• India is a union of states whose constituent units have their own governments elected on the basis of universal adult franchise.
  — Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Buckley is the rare artist getting a shot at being elected on the basis of releasing only one album in his lifetime.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026
• This was soon determined, but not by uninvolved sources and not purely on the basis of the definition given above.
  — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026