The phrase "tenet underlying" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to refer to a fundamental or basic principle that guides or supports a particular belief, action, or argument. Example: The tenet underlying the company's mission statement is a commitment to ethical and sustainable practices.
If there's one philosophical tenet underlying the last decade of Hollywood films, it's this: If you go for it, you'll get it.
The tenet underlying the MET concept is that early activation and intervention by a suitably trained team improves outcome.
This fundamental tenet underlying coastal ecosystem management has not been sufficiently tested to date, but the current availability of dozens of cases of individual ecosystems undergoing eutrophication and subsequent oligotrophication now allows such tests to be conducted.
But the tenets underlying that worldview — struggle is a virtue; united we stand; cities matter — are every bit as fundamental to American idealism as the Texas-bred reverence of vastness and individualism.
Too often, however, apparent controversy arises for lack of appreciation of basic tenets underlying statistical testing.
The detection and prevention of such crimes are the basic tenets underlying all child protective services (Pritchard, 2014).
Three basic tenets underlying advanced bibliometric analyses have been emphasized in the literature: a) activity measurement; b) impact measurement, and c) linkage measurement [20].
The underlying tenet of society, we come to understand, is that people are forbidden to be single.
Its underlying tenet -- that time exacerbates the problem -- means that the longer Congress squabbles about how to increase job growth, the more intractable the situation becomes.
Geared toward ongoing organized criminal activities, the underlying tenet of RICO is to prove and prohibit a pattern of crimes conducted through an "enterprise," which the statute defines as "any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity".
The underlying tenet of this approach was supported by the current literature review.
