On an empirical basis, that's pretty cool, but it's also at the heart of a growing problem with the cars in this class.

A claim like "the cosmos exists because it is created by a God with a purpose" has no empirical basis.

In other words, what is the scientific empirical basis of causation itself?

An empirical basis for the clinical assessment of competence has not yet been established.

It is hoped that this work can contribute a better empirical basis to discussion about the adequacy of benefit levels.

The empirical basis of objective science has thus nothing 'absolute' about it.

If the poet knew so little about them, one would like to know the empirical basis for the poet's stereotyping an ethnic group.

Cynics observed that there is little empirical basis for any of these hopes.

We hope that this report will bring some empirical basis to this complex discussion.

This has not been my experience, and as far as I know, there is no empirical basis for such statements.