21.   Excess soil that is reinstalled must be firmly settled with a plate compactor for an even, solid base.

22.   Gennadi Zyuganov, the Communist leader, has a solid base of mostly older supporters.

23.   He is a sports fan, and wants to establish immediately a solid base as the owner by stabilizing the team.

24.   He has married two worlds, grafting a Euro sensibility on a solid American base.

25.   He gave me a good solid base that I could always refer back to as a hitter.

26.   He had no solid base fighting to keep him in power.

27.   He has a solid base.

28.   He was quiet and modest, with a solid family base.

29.   Ideologically, Graham has built a solid moderate base, which he demonstrated most recently as one of the primary organizers of a group of moderate Democratic senators.

30.   If market economics were at fault, he said, Chile could not have achieved the solid economic base it now has.