undergirding

• “Statistics were the "undergirding" of Africa's poverty reduction policies and programmes.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “North Carolina when I was there and I knew him very well and he was very much involved with the Fellowship, very much interested in what was going on and it was with this kind of undergirding that was going on ... it wasn't just technique and it wasn't just action ... it was something that motivated him.”

  Oral History Interview with Nelle Morton, June 29, 1983. Interview F-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

• “This historical sequence forged the sociological undergirding for the much discussed culture wars of our time.”

  Simon & Schuster: American Grace

• “I guess one expects the location of a life-changing event to be remarkable in some way, but as I approached the bridge, I saw that it was quite ordinary, supported by round pilings, its undergirding painted a grayish blue, its old concrete stained with iron rust and crumbling at the edges.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear

• “And since security concerns are tightly linked to privacy concerns (they are twin pillars undergirding public trust in technology), it will be important for lawmakers to ensure that data stored the cloud enjoys the same legal protections as data stored on personal computers.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Holleyman: How Will Hackers Fare in the Cloud?

• “These bullying behaviors would not exist without the undergirding and the patina of respect provided by religious fervor against LGBT people.”

  The Huffington Post: Bishop Gene Robinson: How Religion Is Killing Our Most Vulnerable Youth

• “Nonetheless, we hope for the best and present the New Testament premises undergirding its teaching on the use and misuse of material goods.”

  The Premises of Gospel Poverty

• “American Jews, Christians, Muslims and those of other religious and ethical communities could insist that our government use its influence and power on behalf of the flowering of peace, instead of undergirding violence and war.”

  The Huffington Post: Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Behind The Tony Kushner Story

• “I did not think he was vain enough to believe he had a degree of persuasive power that no politician in American history has ever possessed and could turn his sworn enemies into his bosom buddies simply by making them see the plain reason undergirding his beautiful words.”

  Presidential vanities

• “Although there was another big slab of tannins, the tannins were elegant undergirding a delicate layer of dark berry aromas.”

  Tasting Bordeaux 2005 blind with Robert Parker | Dr Vino's wine blog

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