underpinning

underpin | Business English

underpin
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌʌndəˈpɪn/ us /-dɚ-/-nn-
to give support to something or provide the starting point from which something can develop:
Falling unemployment was likely to underpin consumer confidence.
These new products are part of a line-up that will underpin the company's recovery.

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underpin
In both of these studies maximising choice and control over one's life emerged as key themes which underpinned these more specific outcomes.
Not only is much of its aid tied, it also helps to underpin the political economies of narrow state elites.
This claim is supported by the fact that most of the existing multi-agent languages are not yet fully underpinned by a clear semantic description.
It is more an exposition of principles that underpin curriculum design, together with examples of how these might work in practice.
The goals or policies of agencies underpin the resource exchanges set out in agency framework documents.
In fact, the decentralisation project threatened the clientelist politicians who depended on health care patronage to sustain the political networks that underpinned their electoral machines.
The commitment to continuing to play was underpinned by an awareness of the long-term nature of the p roject they had undertaken.
Different notions of social participation appear to underpin the situation in each country.
Jennings et al. (2000) note that negotiation underpins any attempt at coordinating multiple agents (human or software).
For one, the idea of tribe underpins the approaches to tradition, chieftaincy and customary law discussed above.
The same considerations should, presumably, underpin reviews of policing in democratic societies.
The specific conjectures to be outlined can probably be underpinned by more fundamental features of which they are the implications.
While most academic narratives are sensitive to this, the normative concepts of culture still underpin theoretical approaches to acculturation.
While some legal restraints on labour may exist, liberalized labour markets are underpinned principally by the electoral dominance of pro-neoliberal parties.
It is also argued that two institutions are particularly important in underpinning patriarchal capitalism, that is paid employment and the family.
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