| Rescues were co-operative affairs, and although they were underpinned by law, this was the ordinary private law, not public law. |
| A fear of water deprivation or perhaps the memory of the effects of drought-induced scarcity underpinned many of the documented water disputes. |
| Work began on rectifying the structural problems of the library and extra piles were inserted and the building was underpinned. |
| The planned cycle of seven books is underpinned by the conceit that there should be one book for each day of the week. |
| The taboo against miscegenation underpinned many of these negative colonial representations. |
| The song sounds like a fleet of androids racing and screaming toward the future, underpinned by a churning disco beat. |
