Sentence examples for underpinning is from inspiring English sources

One politician's "statutory underpinning" is another politician's coughing fit.

Their sense of purpose plays into fears of such a possibility.The junta's moral underpinning is a brand of puritanical paternalism.

Sometimes this underpinning is literal; rocks, after all, are what govern landscape, agriculture and patterns of human settlement.

Sometimes, the underpinning is metaphorical minerals, for example, underpin both industry and, in the form of gold and silver, economics.

Underpinning is important so that those in the regulatory scheme are held to it and the regulator has powers and standards, Harris says.

The intellectual underpinning is - this is the phrase that got Mr Brown into trouble for pretentiousness when he first uttered it - endogenous growth theory.

Six clauses relating to statutory underpinning were rejected.

Additionally, its pasta underpinning was a bit gummy, as though it had been standing too long.

Instead, it got a report that determined the system's legal underpinning was hopelessly flawed.

The ideas of spontaneous generation and the innate tendency toward progress, especially, with its naïve mechanistic underpinning, are hopelessly obsolete.

Its continued dominance after the crash, like the neoliberal model it underpins, is about power not credibility.