Underpin
underpin (verb) - supports, strengthens, provides a foundation, for something to continue
the values that underpin
helps underpin
underpin policies
the core competences that underpin
underpins the business
underpins the economy
underpins the idea of economic growth
underpins the British legal system
sales helped to underpin prices
the training programme underpinned many hotel and catering programmes
his determination is underpinned by his strong beliefs
the ancient mystical themes that underpin all religions
the prohibition was underpinned by new legal remedies
the youth style underpinned this stage of the 1960s
the growth in revenues was underpinned by an improvement in exports
efforts underpinned by a dedication better than a pack of African Hunting Dogs
Example sentences:
* Unlimited liability is said to underpin the integrity of a Lloyd's insurance policy.
* The company acquired a collection of thousands of enzymes, which underpin its business.
* Sales of soyabeans to the Soviet Union have helped to underpin prices, which $5.80 a bushel in Chicago this week.
* Her look was epitomized by the youth style that underpinned this stage of the sixties, known as "Mod."
* All her efforts were underpinned by a dedication to the cause that couldn't have been bettered by a pack of African Hunting Dogs.
* His determination is underpinned by a belief that the problem, no matter how large it appears to be, can be overcome.
* UK operations, which deal with just over half of the company's clients, saw a steady 6% growth in revenues said to be underpinned by a healthy 12% improvement in exports.
* We shall discuss today the ancient mystical themes that underpin all religions.
* But the prohibition on the carrying on of unauthorised investment business is also underpinned by new legal remedies.
* This training programme has also underpinned the development of many hotel and catering programmes throughout the world.
* The quest for greater knowledge was underpinned by a highly gender-specific discourse on sexuality.
* The whole bureaucratic process is underpinned by civil servants, who are well-known empire-builders.
* It begins to look as if what is exhausting is not the amount of work per se, but the lack of clear values to underpin it and the consequent lack of regular enjoyment and true satisfaction that arise from it.
* In the wake of Sputnik a large number of observers, sympathetic and hostile, were convinced that the USSR's technical and scientific prowess, and the planning system which underpinned it, posed a profound challenge to the West's values, institutions and international standing.
* All agricultural systems are underpinned by the processes of energy flows and biogeochemical cycles which, when disrupted, bring about environmental degradation.
* From hand-churned butter and fresh eggs to delicate salad leaves and edible flowers, the enterprise is underpinned by the farm.
* The level of Japanese investment in this country runs into billions of pounds and that it underpins tens of thousands of jobs directly and a great many more indirectly?
* It offers promotion opportunities to the service technicians and underpins our growth objective which in turn is good for everyone in Pest Control.
* And it was and is women's labour that underpins the economies of every developing country.
* Eve the temptress, created by a male deity, formed from the rib of Adam, later to cause the fall of 'man' from grace and innocence, this patriarchal myth of woman underpins Western culture.
* The second component is the powerful sense of mission that underpins everything McDonald's does, a mission to set the industry standard for quality, service and cleanliness through an unrelenting attention to detail.
* But the basic essence of the strategy focuses on the small firms which underpin the local economy.
* The report, which covers activities at all sites operated by the Company, underpins a new policy statement by BNFL which focuses attention on current environmental performance and potential improvement.
* The research effort in a university department should underpin the teaching and courses it offers.
* These are some of the factors which underpin economic activity in market societies.
* These customer surveys are to underpin our research.
* This philosophy of management underpinned the subsequent R&D, manufacturing and marketing activity for the next decade.
* Conservation has underpinned national forestry policy until now.
* The professor showed that his ideals were underpinned by a morality of mutual duty and service, although the benefits and freedom which each participant drew from such an arrangement varied directly according to their position in the hierarchy.
* Any commentary must acknowledge at the outset the difficulty in effectively representing diversity of both sectors in terms of quality, quantity and of style that is to say, in the attitudes and values that underpin service.
* A national health service should take over the provision for medical care in the old insurance scheme and effectively underpin the new one.
* In other cases, the decision about how to finance a service will reflect the political and ethical values that underpin the policy.
* Finally, such approaches are, again, inherently conservative in that they underpin the prevailing common sense about the nature and causes of unemployment, they foreclose discussion on any alternative analyses, and they integrate and undermine potentially deviant political stances amongst the unemployed
* They believe the revival in borrowing in the economy revealed yesterday underpins other evidence of a gradual return of confidence.
* A high exchange rate and the monetary policy which underpins it is just as tough an instrument as domestic credit controls, tax increases or cuts in public expenditure.
* Massive overseas contracts, particularly in the Far East, will help underpin growth at North West Water over the coming years, the group said today.
* We very much hope that such reforms will underpin the peace process.
* These are the principles we must use to underpin a new quality control system.
* Every President since John Kennedy has used the Berlin Wall to dramatise the global Communist threat, to assert American leadership of the Western world, and to underpin fundamental foreign and security policy directions.
* The philosophy that underpins this statement of purpose is the belief that every individual human being in our society has rights of citizenship and the potentiality to participate as a citizen, irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, cultural background or physical or mental ability.
* It has been our purpose here to indicate what has been successful in the past, and the strong technical basis which underpins success.
* And I think that's what underpins the advice in Planning Policy Guidance note number three which is seeking to use the new settlement as a mechanism for improving the n the er the landscape.
* Her satire, however, is always underpinned by an awareness of women's vulnerability.
* In recent years the increasingly rigid age division of British society has been underpinned by social security, including pensions, policy.
* This invokes the operation of vicious circles, involving deforestation for arable cultivation and fuelwood underpinned by rapidly increasing population pressure; as land is degraded by accelerated erosion, even steeper slopes are cultivated and more forest is cleared.
* This belief underpinned Russian policy towards Turkey for the greater part of the reign.
* What details must underpin these decisions?
* The problem with this approach is that it doesn't allow for the possibility that there are additional cellular mechanisms of plasticity in mammals, that have evolved to underpin our greater learning abilities.
