5 sentences with 'underpinned'
Example sentences and phrases with the word underpinned and other words derived from it.
• « This alliance was underpinned by staggering levels of official violence through law enforcement and the brutal suppression of popular uprisings. »
• « The basic argument that underpinned Enlightenment thought is that reason is universal and inherent in humans, and that if society could shed the pernicious patterns of tradition, superstition and ignorance, humanity would naturally arrive at a harmonious society. »
• « World War I provided the trauma, bloodshed and scepticism towards liberalism and socialism that underpinned the rise of fascism. »
• « Prior to the 1820s, a code of deference had underpinned the political order of the republic. Deference was the practice of showing respect for individuals who had distinguished themselves through military achievement, educational attainment, business success, or family pedigree. »
• « A large dose of optimism, fuelled by the revivalism of evangelical Protestantism, underpinned the moral crusades of the first half of the nineteenth century. »