Trials at least provide a statistically acceptable basis for deciding whether or not a treatment is any good.

A mutually acceptable basis for a decision is to be worked out there.

Perjury about some official act may indeed be a constitutionally acceptable basis for impeachment.

These are generally not an acceptable basis for making decisions about teaching children under the act.

Yet for the purposes of future reform, it is important that policy be anchored to some identifiable and acceptable theoretical basis.

That is not an acceptable basis for talks, he said.

The directive governing the matter, which is the product of a partly successful compromise, has a clear, acceptable moral basis.

That creates a very acceptable basis for debate.

This is the only acceptable basis for renewing the Lisbon Strategy.

But the reports filed by election monitors provide a minimally acceptable basis for declaring the vote valid.