Examples of undergird

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The ostentatious display of facts and figures dramatizes the efficiency and efficacy of the organization, and ultimately undergirds its authority.
Shared tri-partite lineage formations undergirded political life, and were legitimated through universal ritual practices.
Migration and adaptation was a painful experience, one undergirded by a process of class formation.
What images of science, society, and sociological method undergirded their attempts to study scientific knowledge sociologically?
If the covenant is not to restore old oppressions or create new ones, it must be checked and undergirded by contract.
What should be questioned in this view, however, is the complacent sense of progress that undergirds it.
In fact, however, the preservation of choice is a bedrock moral value in medicine, one that undergirds patient-physician encounters.
Similarly, the roles of agencies and their administrative capacities are also determined in part by the idea that undergirds the policy regime.
Two factors undergirded this arrangement.
The subsequent changes demonstrate that this banality is continually undergirded by the same transformative power that brought it into being, a power characterized by the narrative's ending as specifically textual.
They are crafted to undergird, teach and illustrate the process of discursive and statistical persuasion.
History rules out more than it rules in, and in most divided societies it creates deposits of distrust that undergird reluctance to take leaps of faith.
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