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• 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
• 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
• But on the basis of market math, Harry just shot an eagle.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 May 2024
• The case marks the first time in its nine-year history that IPSO has upheld a complaint on the basis of sexism.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 30 June 2023
• 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
• The lawsuit is framed as a dispute between two states, Missouri and New York, on the basis of an infraction on Trump’s right to free speech.
  — Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 July 2024
• China’s special envoy to the Middle East urged Israel to restart peace talks on the basis of the two-state solution.
  — Clarence Leong, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
• Not all of her clients have reported symptoms, but Baehr says the state of Hawaii allows people to sue on the basis of the fear of future health impacts.
  — Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When relief supplies finally reached the city, they were distributed on the basis of race.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2024
• The changes signal a shift toward grants that build power for those who have been denied it on the basis of race, class, or gender, Bhagarva said.
  — Alex Daniels Of The Chronicle Of Philanthropy, Chronicle Of Philanthropy, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
• In 1997, Congress allowed the F.D.A. to approve drugs on the basis of a single trial, as long as the evidence was persuasive enough.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• As a country, the US spends more on health care than any other high-income country in the world—on the basis of both per-person costs and a share of gross domestic product.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2023
• My wife resents being excluded on the basis of her gender.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• The right answer to stop discrimination on the basis of race, as John Roberts said it, is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 27 Aug. 2023
• The Miskito face an uphill climb to win asylum on the basis of climate change, and their lawyers may seek to incorporate other factors to bolster the case.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• This portion of the U.S. Code allows expulsions of immigrants on the basis of public health safety.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 10 Mar. 2023
• The bank already can’t discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion or gender.
  — Jeffrey Schweers, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Todd and Julie were both sentenced in November 2022 following a jury's conviction in June on the basis of bank fraud and tax evasion.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2023
• Through this department, Tweed and his helpers cancelled the plans for the Paleozoic Museum, at least partially on the basis of its cost.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2023
• In the South, schools were segregated on the basis of race through state and local legislation; that was what Brown v. Board of Education was all about.
  — Michelle Adams, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
• Elaine Thompson More than 50 players protested the use of the surface instead of grass on the basis of gender discrimination.
  — Emma Healy, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
• Plaintiffs don’t even have to prove any intent to discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity.
  — Stephen Moore, Orange County Register, 11 Feb. 2024
• Some might say that’s an understatement, as social media and podcasts freely opined about the state of MLP on the basis of this event, with nearly all of the opinion that 2025 needs to see some format and scheduling changes.
  — Todd Boss, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• But Eastwood’s film, unlike the earlier one, distinguishes that doubter not solely on the basis of a rational examination of the evidence but on the basis of personal knowledge.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024