But there has always been an undergirding of emotion.

During John's six-year administration the university's academic program improved and its financial undergirding became more sound.

The undergirding, however, is cold, calculating enterprise: sell the season tickets, keep them sold, build a product people want.

The factual undergirding is documented in the Notes, some of which unveil new historical data.

Indeed its formulation provided the theological undergirding for having a Council at all and not leaving everything to the pope to decide alone.

But, happily, no one delivers a speech about the psychological undergirding of a relationship that would, finally, be known only to these long-dead men.

"I'm proud of that and would like to put a theological undergirding beneath it because people sometimes have forgotten what motivates their concerns."

So far we have sought to define spiritual direction, provide some biblical undergirding, and give some examples.

"It doesn't have as much undergirding as it should have," he said.

So did its undergirding of cannellini beans.

The splash of light illuminated the undergirding of the belfry and cupola.

"How strong would be this undergirding?

However, the work has been described as serving as "an informational undergirding for Christian missionary work".

Two annuities, purchased by the city at his direction, not only provide an undergirding for the family's financial security but also offer a window onto their values.

If you don't create an undergirding of public-service jobs, community-service jobs, you won't be able to do it.

Eventually, the psychologists' work provided the undergirding for behavioral economics, the approach developed by Dr. Richard Thaler.

Continuity of personal relationships, recognizing that an ongoing relationship between patients and providers is the undergirding that connects care over time and bridges discontinuous events.

But he added, "we pledge our efforts with yours to convince our colleagues and the country that this is strong undergirding of our economic future, our national prosperity and joint national interests."

While The Imperative of Responsibility has been credited with catalyzing the environmental movement in Germany, his work The Phenomenon of Life (1966) forms the philosophical undergirding of one major school of bioethics in America.

After a month in which much of the debate between the two men has been driven by Iraq, Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry spoke extensively about the domestic issues that Democrats had once hoped would form the undergirding of the campaign.

As pair crews prepared this evening to maneuver the Queen Elizabeth 2 into drydock for the inspection and repair of the gashes in her hull, Federal officials were preparing to determine what clawed through the steel undergirding of the huge luxury liner Friday night and why.

Undergirding Lilla's hesitations about the spread of democracy into various corners of life are, of course, two Europeans--the two he credits with first descrying the worrisome "existential character of the American democratic faith," the Frenchman Alexis De Toqueville and the Englishwoman Frances Trollope.