underpin

Example Sentences

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It underpins our commitment to the United Nations and to its Charter.

From Salon

Those threats have once again called into question the transatlantic alliance that has in many ways underpinned the western economic order celebrated at Davos.

From Barron's

Yet the economy has also shown surprising strength in two key areas — consumer spending and business investment — that continue to underpin the five-year-old expansion and could breathe fresh life into it.

From MarketWatch

The nation of 100 million people is both a repressive one-party state and a regional economic bright spot, with the party seeking to deliver rapid expansion to underpin its claim to legitimacy.

From Barron's

He points to momentum across global corporate action activity and U.S. corporate trust debt issuance, as well as equity markets that underpin employee share-plan trading.

From The Wall Street Journal