Basics of what?

But it's just the very basics.

So there's another thing that comes up with basics.

So my usual question is, what do you mean by basics?

Are the basics of writing learning how to sharpen a quill?

Now, at this point, you've learned the basics of neurons and synapses.

You shouldn't use the machine until you get the basics of the subject.

And once you have the basics, we can make a slightly more complicated circuit.

Well one of them is, they say, you need to get the basics first.

Are the basics of driving a car learning how to service it, or design it for that matter?

So if you go through lots of examples, you can get the answer, you can understand how the basics of the system work better.

Now, to give you a chance to understand why there is power in that statement, I've got to give you the basics of Space 101.

An academic found students at the world's number one university are often clueless when it comes to the very basics about how to look after themselves.

Most scientists assume that the basics of science are known. In terms of big challenges, the conventional wisdom is that few things are left to discover.

The Millennium Summit was a response to a global moral consensus our world can no longer deny the basics of life and peace to billions of people.

So I went back to basics, and offered my personal assessment of what we might realistically try to do to bridge existing differences on a programme of work.

The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics.

So just because paper was invented before computers, it doesn't necessarily mean you get more to the basics of the subject by using paper instead of a computer to teach mathematics.

Before we address our ambitious plans to reform our Organization, we must first agree on a number of premises and basics to secure our path towards the realization of our common objectives.

I think you need to separate the basics of what you're trying to do from how it gets done and the machinery of how it gets done and automation allows you to make that separation.

Experts on economic development in Africa naturally concentrate on basic technologies clean water, energy for cooking, electricity, and improved roads. Even in South Africa, the wealthiest country on the continent, millions of people lack basics.

States Parties to the Covenant shall guarantee the basics necessary for the survival and development of the child and for his her protection from violence, abuse, exploitation, and deterioration of his her living and health conditions.

That means that they can be students, young parents, and be able to sort of duck and dive around the basics of cooking, no matter what recession hits them next time. If you can cook, recession money doesn't matter.

As you can see from the pictures, both Noam and I had an early fascination with first principles, and over the years, as our knowledge of science and technology became more sophisticated, this early awe with the basics has only intensified.

The health of the individual and of society proceed comprehensively out of an interaction of biologic basics, external factors of the environment (socio economic conditions, conditions of life, the political and cultural environment) and, of course, the quality of health care.

To accelerate the process of implementing efforts to promote child survival in Guinea, USAID, through the Basics II Project, has established a national office to support the Ministry of Health in the areas of IMCI and EPI (Expanded Programme on Immunization).

And she thought, You know, if I have a nutrition facts label on the side of a cereal box, why can't there be something that simple telling every new nurse who comes on duty, every new doctor, the basics about my husband's condition?

All staff involved in the process of producing food, or who work in the facilities where meals are being cooked (catering facilities) have to attend the lectures on hygiene sanitary basics and to take the final exam before entering the work relationship. Their knowledge has to be

It has always been our conviction that, in order to reach a solution to the decades of injustice and suffering experienced by the peoples of the Middle East, we must revert to the basics a return to the rule of law and respect for human rights and international law.

But, in conflicts like these, the one thing that children need, beyond the material basics, is hope. And it is education that provides children with hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel hope that they can plan for the future and prepare for jobs and adulthood.

At this point, an end to current hostilities in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen requires national, regional, and international consensus. But averting further catastrophic violence in the region will require that governments go back to basics, introduce inclusive political processes, end state sanctioned violence, ensure due process, and address socioeconomic injustices.

One problem is that doctors receive little formal training in obtaining consent, with medical schools teaching only the basics. As a result, many doctors are unaware of the subtleties of what constitutes valid consent in the eyes of the law and their professional body a task made more difficult by the evolving rules on consent.

Of course, it is true that birthright citizens live their lives and retain their citizenship without ever being tested on the basics of their political systems. But it is a reasonable expectation often legitimately reinforced through civic education for all children that citizens know how to participate in public affairs, and especially that they know what their and others rights are.

Paradoxically, we have found that working class women (and women of color) rarely harbor such economically problematic structures of denial. They tend to be more ready than middle class white women, in our experience, to master the basics of financial literacy and to learn salary negotiation, because they don t have the luxury of assuming that a knight on a white horse will rescue them economically.

The idea that the British set any kind of standard for bank conduct was exploded by last year s Libor scandal, while the fiasco at RBS destroyed the notion that UK officials know how to handle a failing bank. And now the PRA has confirmed that the British authorities do not even have a firm grip on the basics of regulating capital that is, determining how much equity is safe for large complex global financial institutions.