basis

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That bloody chapter in Colombian history provided a factual basis for a subplot in “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” an epic novel by Gabriel García Márquez, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982.

From Salon

Germany has introduced a new military service, initially on a voluntary basis.

From The Wall Street Journal

The basis of the threat is clearly deeply worrying.

From BBC

In Korea, age difference, even by a year, forms the basis of social hierarchy.

From BBC

Laschet added, in a sombre opening speech: "If Europe is not competitive economically it will not, in the long-term, have the financial basis, the technological basis, the industrial basis to guarantee its security."

From Barron's