basic thought

"My basic thought was that King Charles has just been crowned," he explained.

"My basic thought is like, Well, how can I give back to someone that has served so much to our nation and helped us out? "

“The basic thought was that in February the prime minister regarded this as just a scare story ... he described it as the new swine flu,” Cummings said.

That’s a pretty basic thought, and its ethical validity isn’t reduced by the unfortunate fact that too many Americans have resisted it.

“You can’t give an absolute ban, but my basic thought is that it’s a bad time to travel,” he said.