Literacy was not high, and commerce was narrowly based.

Some analysts worry that two of those rallies are too narrowly based.

The specific function of the conference is to choose a national council to oversee the current, narrowly based interim government.

Backed by some oil-patch members of Congress, this would amount to a more narrowly based energy tax.

The ruling was narrowly based on the way the California law limited contributions by fiscal year and therefore appeared to have limited national implications.

The restricted range of animals he saw at the College, and the limited nature of their diseases, inevitably meant that his experience was narrowly based.

Many feared for the continued existence of their own narrowly based governments in the face of the Iraqi threat.

This is a somewhat exaggerated inference to draw from such narrowly based data.

His rule is narrowly based on one ethnic minority, his own Alawites, who govern by fear.

All were either too expensive or too narrowly based.