Many have a home country, or a market share within it, that is too small to underwrite international success.
Technology helps underwrite military success when one side alone is its beneficiary and the other side is unable or unwilling to adapt.
It's hard to imagine that this sort of rehabilitation will occur in Afghanistan as long as the fighting with the Taliban and Al Qaeda goes on, and unless enough money is available to underwrite more success stories — even relative ones, like the new road between Kabul and Kandahar.
We need to put this alongside the financial crash, which brought home to people that a very few individuals working in the financial sector can accrue huge rewards and that the rest of us underwrite that success and pick up the bill when their greed leads us astray.
Starting or investing in these types of businesses is particularly difficult because one has to underwrite the success of the current generation of products while continually anticipating consumer's future preferences.
Repeating what you've done in the past or copying what someone else is doing now are not innovative, and it's innovation that underwrites future success.
During his several years with Mutual of America, Bob made a major contribution to making Mutual's administrative and underwriting operations the success they have become.
Trott and Swann's woes are a growing problem for England but they are not the only sign that the corps of brilliant and battle-hardened stars who have underwritten so much success in the past seven years are starting to reach their expiry dates.
Although Véron had not commissioned it (having taken control only after the Revolution), Robert was his first new production as manager of the Opéra, and its success underwrote his policy of commissioning similar works.
The way you measure an insurer's success in underwriting risk is called "the combined ratio". If it's below 100, that's good.
Lenders attribute the success to conservative underwriting standards that did not exist in 2007, when loans were aggressively made based on projected income streams rather than a property's current cash flow.
