Sentences with 'basing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word basing and other words derived from it.
• « What is clear is that the Parthians deliberately built on the achievements of the earlier Achaemenid and Seleucid periods, adopting the title of king of kings, basing their empire (from 120 BC) on Ctesiphon, a city near Babylon in Mesopotamia, and ruling over a shifting confederation of both the settled peoples of Mesopotamia and Persia itself and nomadic tribal confederations. »
• « An old adage says that "generals fight the last war", basing their tactics on what worked in previous conflicts, and in 1914 the "last war" most generals sought was the Franco-Prussian war, which Prussia had won by swift and decisive action and overwhelming force. »