If the Republicans are scared to even debate something as rudimentary as this, shame on them.

But as rudimentary ideas or inchoate tendencies, there they are; and these are what must form the future.

The pop-up media-magnet festival even created headlines when it did something as rudimentary as sell all of its tickets.

The main features, indeed, can still be traced, but they have become as transformed and lifeless as rudimentary organs.

Thirdly, we may be sure that the morality of pre-historic man was as imperfect and as rudimentary as his reason.

Photograph: Henrik Duncker for the Guardian If the 2007 incident was destabilising, it now seems as rudimentary as a zeppelin attack.

Moreover, the four gill-clefts of the human embryo are only interesting as rudimentary organs, and they soon close up and disappear.

The celebrated Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe denounced Conrad as a "thoroughgoing racist" who portrayed Africans only as rudimentary savages.

Taking these faults as rudimentary ones, Lysbet could enlarge on them indefinitely; and Joris had undoubtedly been influenced by his wife's opinions.

We are justified in concluding that they were at least as rudimentary in structure and life as the lowest inhabitants of nature to-day.

A steady trickle of people set out for Florida in homemade boats that were sometimes as rudimentary as the inner tubes of tires.

There stood the engine, almost as rudimentary as a parlor stove, in full sight and directly under our cabin; also close to the woodwork.

As rudimentary as it still is, networking excludes everything that is not fast- paced and to the point.