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Underpin

To provide a new foundation for a wall or column in an existing building without removing the superstructure.
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According to the report from Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, titled "How Sovereign Wealth Funds Are Underpinning Gulf States' Credit Quality", SWFs underpin fiscal and external stability for their sponsoring nations, and have become integral to their sovereign creditworthiness.
"HP and Hitachi share an innovative spirit and customer-focused approach to doing business that underpins our ongoing relationship and enables us to deliver these types of breakthrough product offerings," said Fumio Kugiya, general manager, Server Business Unit, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
Current independent estimates of Melanotan's sales for Australia and New Zealand alone are expected to reach in excess of A$50 million in the first two years, which underpins very strong growth prospects for EpiTan over the next five years.
It is also viewed as underpinning an effective European single market, with the Commission stressing: "Contract law underpins all internal market transactions in Europe".
Scientists in Sweden have discovered the cascade of molecular events that underpins many cases of toxic shock syndrome.
The increase in the real stock of housing in these countries is an important factor that underpins the situation and means that there are not large systemic risks.
This theory is not some logical afterthought of Aquinas' "just cause" theory, as McBride suggests, but is that principled logic which underpins it.
Beijing understands that it is access to broad, liquid and diverse capital markets that underpins America's power.
It underpins nearly every facet of adult life in a way that domestic partnership can't even begin to approach, "The whole system of marriage is constructed so that public policy and public money supports it," says Paula Ettelbrick, family policy director for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute.