on the strength of

1. On the basis of, as in She was hired on the strength of her computer skills. [Early 1600s]

Example Sentences

Great actors change every time we see them, but the great movie stars succeed on the strength of the personas they carry from film to film.

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But come early for the incongruously booked but supremely exciting U.K. post-punk of Wet Leg and the ferocious Atlanta pop-punk combo the Paradox, who opened for Green Day and Jack White on the strength of just a few viral videos.

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By the late 1990s, on the strength of his breakout performance in “Jesus’ Son,” magazines were calling him the next big thing.

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“Professional Republicans will bemoan Mamdani winning the mayor’s race in New York City, and some may even note he won on the strength of support from voters not born in America, and at no point will any of them make the obvious connection that mass immigration is destroying this country,” added Sean Davis, co-founder of conservative online magazine The Federalist.

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On the strength of this work and his other superb release this fall, “Blue Moon,” Mr. Linklater has added considerably to what was already a brilliant career spanning several genres, from “Dazed and Confused” to the “Before” trilogy and “School of Rock.”

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