Students must often 'underpin' their essays with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

There are policy assumptions that underpin those numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference

It is precisely these programs that underpin their well-being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Serious] Reference

  He says human rights underpin America's greatest aspirations.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Billionaire Gives $100 Million to Human Rights Group] Reference

These trends should underpin valuations of junior mining companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mining Majors to Buy, Build] Reference

Creativity, artistry and skill needs to underpin the creative process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Trendy Tech Toys] Reference

In the short run, that should help underpin corporate profits amid slack demand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Older Work Force Has an Ugly Wrinkle] Reference

But let's pay very close attention to the numbers that will underpin these fines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Deepwater Horizon Flow Rate Estimate Is Likely Too Low, Which Benefits BP] Reference

Now, what responsibility is there on others to try and reinforce or to underpin this initiative?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2001] Reference

America, and the political and economic systems that underpin it, is a mirage, not a destination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Doctoroff: How China Feels About America: Dangerous Love] Reference

Those wartime experiences underpin "Tommy," Mr. Russell's 1975 adaptation of the Who's rock opera.    From Wordnik.com.  [At War With Zombies, Boredom and Ken Russell] Reference

The idea was to provide local banks with federal financing to underpin the struggling housing market.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2008] Reference

Substantial synergies should also underpin earnings growth, helping to compensate investors for any dilution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deutsche Bank's Deft Timing] Reference

The U.S. has been pushing other confidence-building measures to underpin the process, American officials said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mideast Talks Address Key Issues] Reference

Don Sniegowski, whose articles underpin the site, has a background in trade publishing as well as franchising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Franchising] Reference

We're labouring hard to underpin them with our unmoveable convictions and to gild them with our finest rhetoric.    From Wordnik.com.  [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference

But forecasts for rate hikes are already being pushed back as a result, with low rates helping to underpin growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.K.'s Surprising Resilience] Reference

I can see a platform-sharing plan that would underpin the next Explorer, Expedition, Expedition EL, and Navigator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final thoughts: Mercedes-Benz GL450] Reference

The carrier said Monday that it expects the recovery to continue to underpin its business for the rest of the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Singapore Airlines Posts Profit] Reference

I firmly believe that such deep-rooted ties between our two peoples underpin our everlasting alliance and partnership.    From Wordnik.com.  [State Dinner Toast For President Kim] Reference

Despite this progress, structural reforms necessary to underpin macroeconomic stabilization were not pursued vigorously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference

We are now going after the hawala organizations, the shadowy financial networks that underpin the terrorists 'underworld.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2001] Reference

Similar policies underpin the Millennium Africa Recovery Plan, a Pan-African initiative Mbeki touted to British ministers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Incredible Shrinking President] Reference

And he has not decided what judgments he may make, but he certainly would underpin those judgments with factual information.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2002] Reference

/French cooperation can help to underpin not only security in Europe, but also a more secure and prosperous world beyond Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2009] Reference

What they're doing is they're finding our weaknesses, and our weaknesses are these open economic networks that underpin our power.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2004] Reference

This has been a very volatile claim and seems to be fanning the flames, or at least the sentiment which would underpin a civil war.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2005] Reference

Mr. Netanyahu said he would like to meet with Mr. Abbas every two weeks to underpin the process, though that hasn't been formalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rivals in Middle East Fast-Track Talks] Reference

And so a doctrine -- containment -- was born, and it would underpin Western diplomacy until the Soviet bloc finally imploded in 1989.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clash Of A New Order] Reference

Their observations and recording underpin the work of the professionals whose research helps to shape conservation policy and practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country diary: New Forest] Reference

But better-than-expected U.S. data in the form of retail sales and business inventories later in the session helped to underpin stocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [European Markets End Nearly Flat] Reference

The Australian bureau said the expected increase in wheat production will underpin higher exports in the marketing year that begins Oct. 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Ups Wheat Forecast] Reference

Israel can and should do more to push forward the necessary changes on the ground the West Bank and Gaza that can underpin the peace process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair Takes on the World] Reference

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Never Yet Melted] Reference

China's growing millionaire population nearly 500,000, according to June's World Wealth Report and Hong Kong being the largest watch market globally underpin that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luxury's Uphill Climb Begins] Reference

Most analysts don't expect new quantitative easing measures from the Fed, but the speculation has helped lift U.S. bond prices and underpin demand for U.S. stocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asia Climbs on U.S. Optimism] Reference

Theoretically, such support could be provided through swap lines via the Bank of England, but why should the ECB stick its neck out to underpin a CCP based outside the euro zone?.    From Wordnik.com.  [EU's derivatives proposal carries risks of its own] Reference