What is "underpin"

Usage examples of "underpin".

King Alfred Gold Cup would underpin public faith in the brewery and boost the sales that would generate the income that alone would save the day.

Brute tabulature might work, if the underpinning translation were preordained, symmetrical.

With the professor fluttering around to fetch and carry and lend an unmuscular hand, he brought in planks and timber and did a very competent job of underpinning the floor above.

Underpinning all of it like the fiscal standard in commercial societies lay a bedrock of depravity and violence where in an egalitarian absolute every man was judged by a single standard and that was his readiness to kill.

Perhaps the subtle electrochemistry that underpins your mind is being influenced, somehow, by that.

So for all the major odyssean adventures there is a this-worldly incident as underpinning, taken from the inventory of reports likely to be given by ordinary, unimaginative merchant-pirates of the Mediterranean sea.

There is a mathematical underpinning that you musl first acquire, mastery of each mathematical subdiscipline leading you to the threshold of the next.

For the Slavophiles, the principles of tsarist rule were completely different from those which had underpinned autocracy in the West.

The problem for Saddam was that the four assumptions underpinning his grand strategy all turned out to be wrong.

Sorrow, before the turbulent river had been called by that name and before the nuking had upset some of the shifting rocks underpinning the Shens, making the Sorrow the untamed terror it now was.

This is almost a nonsensical point, since the approval of the Goods Review List in May 2002 effectively removed the last remnants of the economic sanctions, leaving only the military sanctions and the financial controls that underpin them.

Indeed, few other crime writers have so cleverly utilised a knowledge of drugs and medicines to underpin their fictionas she demonstrates in the following mystery about Margaret Merrowdene who, after being accused of poisoning her first husband, has now married again.

The bombshell that the Saint had flung at him had knocked the underpinning from the very foundations of his universe.

Thus I learned that the local economy was underpinned by the Dounreay nuclear reactor down the road, that the castle had once been a thing of well-maintained beauty but had been allowed to fall into decrepitude by an eccentric owner, that Inverness was the seat of all forms of excitement.

As a special concession to keep them occupied, they were allowed to watch us dress, Catron giggling nearly as much as I, as we struggled into the corselettes and hoops and petticoats required to underpin our lovely gowns.