"underpin the argument" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to provide a solid and logical foundation for an argument. Example: The author uses data and statistics to underpin their argument and make it more convincing to the reader.
The deeper issue underpinning the argument about what to do with all that money centers on the question of time.
However, I also don't think that fact is relevant to the moral force of the arguments underpinning the argument.
Minerals extraction within the EU also showed a decreasing trend, with a particularly sharp decrease during the years of the economic crisis, underpinning the argument above that the construction sector in many EU countries was one of the most effected parts of the economies.
Dr. Davis directed research underpinning the arguments by Mr. Marshall, the lead counsel.
The author's decisions are based on conceptual and methodological arguments, no peer-reviewed science is provided to underpin the argumentation and categorization.
The whole underpinning of the argument -- that it's O.K. to let broadcast networks produce all their own shows, that there is cable out there -- just went away".
David Stather and Niall D Ferguson The common theme underpinning both the argument presented by Mascia and colleagues and our own is the clear lack of rigorous, prospective data regarding the utility and optimal timing of tracheostomy in brain-injured patients.
Apart from the shockingly poor science underpinning this argument, the notion of "culling" whales to protect fish stocks directly contradicts the idea of conducting a sustainable hunt that allows populations to grow.Furthermore, as you note, there is no overwhelming demand for whale meat and products; there is barely any market at all.
Its most obvious but not its most compelling argument comes in the finale: a literal statement of the old Lutheran hymn "Es Ist Genug," which in both tone and harmonic underpinning mediates the arguments of an old world and a new one.
The regressive notion that 1percentt of income is worth the same for the poorer present than for the richer future is the kind of thinking that underpins the misguided argument for a flat tax.
