"underlying facts of" is a correct phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe the fundamental or essential information or details that support a particular situation or claim. Example: The lawyer presented evidence to the court to prove the underlying facts of his client's innocence.
Whatever the underlying facts of this case, clearly some people over here can't stop themselves - it's going to be part of the politics of the "war on terror" this election year.
The report confirmed many of the underlying facts of the news reports and found that Mr. Perle's business dealings did not violate the ethics rules.
"What this means is that victory is going to take longer to achieve, and we're going to have to get into the underlying facts of the case," said Scot C. Gleason, senior counsel in the city's Law Department.
"People who are criticizing this verdict need to remember the underlying facts of this case and the fact that the verdict handed down will lead to a sentence of anywhere from 20 years to life," Mr. Miller said.
If you publish a defamatory comment claiming that someone is a paedophile, without any knowledge of the underlying facts of the case (which would include social media users who named McAlpine), you are clearly displaying reckless disregard for the truth of that allegation.
"I think if you look at the underlying facts of what happened, you see that Mrs. Clinton had invited people to the White House who espoused terrorism and violence as a political tool, people that believed in Hamas, which is a terrorist group," Mr. Lazio said on the "Early Show" on CBS.
Leaving aside obviously provocative language, many nonwhites say that low-grade racism is an underlying fact of life here.
According to Poincaré, there is no underlying fact of the matter about the geometry of physical space, so geometric axioms are not evaluable as true or false.
Unfortunately, few of the presidential candidates are addressing an underlying fact of our economy.
Although he had admitted the underlying fact of his disclosures to WikiLeaks, and to many of the lesser charges against him, the prosecution nonetheless went ahead with trying to prove Manning was guilty of aiding al Qaeda.
"Leaks defending the C.I.A. interrogation program regardless of underlying facts or costs have been a persistent problem for many years," she said.
