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Discover LudwigThe word "underpins" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to describe the idea that one thing supports or is essential to another. For example: "The success of this project relies on the well-defined plan that underpins it."
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underpins
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Third person singular of underpin
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"Computer science is the new Latin: it underpins the digital world just as Latin did the analogue world, and games encapsulate all of the ways in which it marries the arts and sciences".
Human rights groups have long called for fundamental reform of the kafala system in Qatar and its neighbouring Gulf states, believing it underpins a form of modern slavery.
Seymour Pierce analyst Kevin Lapwood said: Despite the recent senior management departures and profits warnings among the peer group (Cape), which have been received nervously and adversely affected the share price, the Amec statement was in-line with expectations and underpins our 2012 estimates.
We don't see, either, how the threat of violence underpins society, he claims.
It underpins my own research ideas in personalisation of health treatments and early diagnosis of disease.
"In terms of safety: safety underpins what we do.
But for all that, and all the known monstrosity of Fifa the film declines to show, I defy you not to warm rather to Auburtin, who embodies a cultural reality too rarely celebrated – particularly given it underpins a non-scientific 92% of culture.
"Given that performance is the key factor that underpins most passengers' general view of the railway, train companies and Network Rail must keep striving to get more trains on time".
At Seymour Pierce, Kevin Lapwood had a similar theme: Despite the recent senior management departures and profits warnings among the peer group (Cape), which have been received nervously and adversely affected the share price, the Amec statement was in-line with expectations and underpins our 2012 estimates.
It is hard not to conclude that the real agent of confusion is more basic – and that it has something to do with the exculpatory plc structure that underpins England's management at all levels.
Instead, we should spend more time studying the pattern of unfairness and discrimination that underpins life in Scotland.
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