THE idea underlying the contracts "obviously makes sense," Mr. Mueller said.
The idea underlying comparative advantage is that a country always has one.
The idea underlying the process was patented more than 20 years ago but never commercially developed by the patent owners.
Several government officials praised the idea underlying the project as ingenious, while cautioning that they could not prejudge the specifics.
The idea underlying the company's success came to him during World War II when he was vice president for marketing.
Selling health plans from state to state without separate licenses — the idea underlying much of the president's order — has long been a Republican mantra.
The idea underlying the initiative is that many if not most of the Taliban's fighters are not especially committed to the cause.
The idea underlying the American approach is that while Mr. Hussein may still have a network of supporters willing to hide him, the military will press to make that network smaller and smaller, until he has nowhere to hide.
This is the idea underlying CSMA/CA.
This is the idea underlying Peter Bowler's influential and provocative book The Non-Darwinian Revolution (Bowler 1988).
