A great power cannot base its policy on an untruth, without a loss of credibility.

The party took a central role, but tried as far as possible to base its policy on mutual understanding and compromise.

President Botha was close to the military, and for 10 years he based his regional policy on military force.

When did he cease basing his policy on it?

Instead it claimed to base its policy directly on the bible.

The European Union is basing its policy on respect for fundamental rights.

My group considers this to be a very useful instrument, that has helped it to base its policy on facts.

I therefore believe that we have here a key example on which the Commission should base its policy.

As long as we base our policy entirely on the present financial picture, we're just digging ourselves into a big hole.

"It's just exciting that somebody wanted to have empirical data to base their policy on."