How To Use Undergird In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Undergirding these laws is the ontological premise that space is divisible into state-owned sovereign units.
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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.
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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.
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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
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It is not to claim that specific community understandings are 'superseded' by this universal principle, rather to claim that they all need to be undergirded by it.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
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Faith undergirds moral principles.
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Faith undergirds moral principles.
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We took measures to undergird the ship.
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This issue undergirds every one of our human interactions.
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Her effort was not merely to interpolate folk sayings in her novels; it was to write fiction according to the aesthetic principles that undergirded oral culture.
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It is not an accident that these same Scottish Enlightenment philosophes I have cited above praising the agreeable virtues of peaceable exchange and commerce should also be committed to offering theories of the interior moral qualities of honor, trust, ‘bindingness’, sympathy, and all the other affective qualities that undergird what might otherwise, on the surface, appear to be merely the enforcement of contracts.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Swim Meet, Another Econo-Culture Tome Reread, and a Reflection on the Theory of Moral Sentiments:
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The distinctives of Reformed theology and practice are useful only to the degree that they undergird and clarify the gospel, the evangel.
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This has had a permanent and detrimental effect upon British and American Evangelicalism, and has undergirded a whole range of unbiblical holiness and perfectionist teachings ever since Wesley's day.
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Such aspects of botanical illustration worked to decontextualize plant life and reinforced the idea of the efficacy of plant transfers, which undergirded the worldwide traffic in plants orchestrated by Kew Gardens.
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undergird the ship
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Any people can be delivered from thraldom but they need, as Tasman rightly points out, the undergirdimg world-view, which is NOT 'generalised Westernism' as if that could power anything but our current cynicism and self destructive hedonism.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Of course, CSAs are just one piece in a patchwork of solutions to reknit regional foodsheds, but more importantly they exemplify the value of community that undergirds a climate-friendly food system.
Anna Lappe: 3 Pillars of a Food Revolution
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The ties go way back and undergird the entire neocon movement and its traditional concern with Israeli affairs.
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Equally troubling are the myths of geographical entitlement that undergird the reprehensible euphemism of ‘ethnic cleansing’.
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Ethical guidelines are needed to undergird national policies for information.
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Some are, some aren't, depending on the philosophical basis which undergird those theories.
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The church lent its ideological support to the state; the state undergirded the authority of the church with its secular power; neither interfered in the other's affairs.
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Until there are some real human institutions undergirding their society, they need a semi-authoritarian center.
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Furthermore, as Sommers hammers at a variety of what she calls factual errors, she conveniently sidesteps an important assumption undergirding her attacks on liberal feminist scholars, which is that they have an agenda and she doesn't.
"And Your Little Dog Too!!!" Christina Hoff Sommers Still Wants The Ruby Slippers
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Because Quakerism is a decentralized faith, Quakers don't have a common doctrine or creed, though the belief that there is "that of God in everyone" undergirds many Quaker traditions, such as opposition to war and concern for the least powerful.
Eileen Flanagan: Quakers Advocate Living in 'Right Relationship' with Creation
