That's the base-line mistake when any relationship fails, and there's nothing "too perfect" about it. ❋ Carolyn Hax (2010)
Under the proposal, the eight largest U.S. banks would face a so-called capital surcharge of between 1% and 2.5% of their "risk-weighted assets," above a base-line level, as agreed to by international regulators in Basel, Switzerland. ❋ Victoria McGrane (2011)
But TV executives are setting the bar higher than usual, increasing base-line expectations. ❋ Sam Schechner (2011)
Samsung is releasing a WiFi-only version of its popular seven-inch "Galaxy Tab," rivalling the base-line iPad, and a smartphone-sized Android-based media player, competing against the iPod Touch. ❋ Yukari Iwatani Kane (2011)
As a base-line projection, the report assumes that the coordinated central bank effort to prevent a sovereign-debt crisis has put a stop to the panic, but failed "to completely eradicate market concerns." ❋ Prabha Natarajan (2012)
The Physicians' Group Practice, or PGP, demonstration selected some of the nation's most respected group practices and promised them a share of the savings if they could reduce Medicare spending below a base-line rate. ❋ Anna Wilde Mathews (2012)
The base-line measures of the crisis have steadily worsened. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Quite a close correlation but I wonder if with Gordon Brown at the helm the Labour party's ratings will start to drop even closer to the 20% base-line ... ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)
When encountered in a sentence in a story, a quirk causes a shift from a base-line suspension-of-disbelief to a sense of incredulity in direct conflict with that suspension-of-disbelief. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)
Strange fiction is built from quirks -- words or phrases reading as images or image-combinations that breach the base-line subjunctivity level of "could have happened" attaching to any sentence read with a suspension-of-disbelief. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)
It used to take many years of expeditions, traversing and mapping ice surface topography to got the base-line data against which glaciologists can now compute the effects of climate change using billions dollars of satellite hardware and ground stations plus the computational powers of major agencies. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A base-line forecast, using the benchmark of recent past crises, suggests that U.S. national debt will rise by $8.5 trillion over the next three years. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Dogma, Ruaridh, is the base-line of any belief system. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even if a statistically compelling case could be made for the power of male teachers as role models, the base-line numbers do not work in favor of the argument. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We managed to get a base-line measured, 1,000 metres long, and to lay out the greater part of the east side of the bay, as well as the most prominent points round the camp; but one had positively to snatch one's opportunities by stealth, and every excursion ended regularly in bringing the instruments home well covered with snow. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Person 1: How did you know so much about [Doctor Who]?
Person 2: Oh that, I [got it] from Base Line Nerd Osmosis with [my sister]. ❋ Human____404 (2021)