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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
• This simple recognition that gender crimes were committed on the basis of gender is a major step forward.
  — Jina Moore Ngarambe, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2024
• Amendments, the Court barely lifted a finger to end segregation and disenfranchisement on the basis of race—not that Congress or the executive branch did much, either.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024