on the strength of
Preposition
Meaning
on the strength of
In reliance upon; on the basis of; using as a guide or support.
Synonym: upon the strength of
The police arrested him on the strength of some rather flimsy evidence.
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Examples
It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.
The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
I largely agree with those that hold that Government should not in general interfere with the course of the economy merely on the strength of its own commercial judgment. If we cannot rely on the judgment of individual businessmen, taking their own risks, we have no future anyway.
We are neither a racial nor a national entity in the conventional meaning of this term; we have become a nation only on the strength of an ideology, a common belief in a particular way of life: and that ideology, that way of life is expressed in one single word: Islam.
Don't pour away your water on the strength of a mirage.