VERB
  1. lend moral support to
  2. make secure underneath
    undergird the ship
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How To Use undergird In A Sentence

  • By aiming to recover a genealogy of such radical epistemology, Herbert's project in effect aims to undergird a hermeneutically suspicious project via unsuspicious historicism.
  • Mestizaje undergirds the complex patterns of hybridity Tex-Mex, conjunto, crossover etc. - that have propelled Hispanic music into the popular-music mainstream of North America.
  • Her primary argument that passion undergirds all vital human endeavor and is the underlying basis for all human motivation/action leads to her overall conclusion.
  • Undergirding these laws is the ontological premise that space is divisible into state-owned sovereign units.
  • With these premises undergirding the plot, Restoration rake-heroes can spend four acts committing every imaginable offense and still be rewarded with the virtuous heroine and her marriage portion before the curtain closes.
  • No doctrine of inspiration needs undergird the text's authority; a doctrine of providence explains its composition, its canonical status accorded by the church, and its contemporary readings.
  • And those forces undergird Russia's intent to halt NATO's eastward enlargement, particularly to Georgia and Ukraine; to retain its Black Sea Fleet headquarters in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol beyond the 2017 expiration of its leasehold; to discourage NATO from planning and exercising the defense of the post Cold War NATO allies; to challenge American cooperation with those allies; and eventually to roll back what it characterizes as encroachment from the west. A Step At A Time
  • It is not to claim that specific community understandings are 'superseded' by this universal principle, rather to claim that they all need to be undergirded by it. Archbishop's Lecture - Civil and Religious Law in England
  • Faith undergirds moral principles.
  • Faith undergirds moral principles.
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