The phrase "about what gives" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in informal contexts to inquire about the reasons or motivations behind a situation or action.
Example: "I'm confused about what gives with the sudden change in plans for the meeting."
Alternatives: "what's going on" or "what's the reason".
Still, Helmreich has a theory about what gives New York's hundreds of communities cohesion: a sense of possibility and pride.
On average, we are given 123 different pieces of advice every week, from sensible government guidelines to scare stories about what gives us cancer.
President Obama may agree with George W. Bush on the usefulness of military commissions to try some terrorists, but he has different ideas about what gives a president the power to create them.
But it also captures a great deal about what gives Brazile's book its vehemence, which occasionally veers into bitterness, by illustrating a basic confusion of the campaign: Who answers to whom, and who gets heard?
A rational person with convictions about what gives life meaning is not willing to negotiate with and gamble away the right to hold and express those convictions and the freedom to act on them.
The idea is that although reasonable people disagree about what gives life fundamental value and meaning, they can nevertheless agree that it is important to hold certain "all-purpose means" for the pursuit of whatever plans of life they have (see, for example, Rawls 1993: 187 190).
I'd like to know more about what "giving access" meant in the case of Paula Broadwell.
She documented overcoming poverty, racial discrimination and giving birth as a teenager: here, she talks about what gave her strength.
What I'm talking about is what gave you the most satisfaction; the biggest high.
Think about what gift giving makes others feel.
For instance, last year I did a series of jokes about what you give a homeless twink at Christmas.
