The word 'underpinnings' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the basic foundations upon which something is built or supported. For example: The success of the project was based on the solid underpinnings of a well-thought-out plan.
(If Manus is knocked out on the basis PNG wasn't properly designated, the government will blame Labor for not getting the technical underpinnings right).
Perhaps these are not just the result of individuals' choices, but a sign that the economic underpinnings of our society are in flux.
In 1844 Moreau met the French philosopher, writer and journalist Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), a man at the heart of Romanticism - the current intellectual movement - and whose manifestos were among its primary underpinnings, epitomised by the slogan "art for art's sake".
In April, the bill was rejected by one vote on the final day of the legislative session, by state representatives who feared that the international treaty – which formalizes rules between nations for child support payments across borders – would subject Idaho to foreign laws, in particular those with underpinnings in Islam.
It represents ecological infrastructure, the underpinnings of a healthy environment.
All the while, confident in the theoretical underpinnings of their inventions, they reassured any doubters that all this activity was not just making bankers rich.
Inequality v growth Reprints Related topics John Roberts Supreme Court cases (United States) Energy industry Fossil fuels HalliburtonThe factual underpinnings of the case are mundane.
If the company loses, says Paul Hoffman, a lawyer acting for the Burmese plaintiffs, "it will really knock out the economic underpinnings" of repressive regimes like Myanmar's.
The fact that roughly a third of the Democratic House majority sits in seats with Republican underpinnings (at least at the presidential level) is almost certain to keep a liberal dream agenda from moving through Congress.See the problem?
Fortunately they still have plenty of scope to cut costs by standardising both their "platforms"—the underpinnings onto which the rest of the car is assembled and other components under the bonnet that drivers do not see.
That is, the movement's philosophical underpinnings, slightly inchoate that they may be, are not exactly outre in the Texas context.
