Examples of underwrite

• Are these higher flights of thinking special to humans, and if so, what is it about us that underwrites this fact?

• The absence of a plausible, independent story underwriting the introduction of such correlation rendered the explanatory story suspect.

• As we have seen, intellectuals generally do allow their existence to be underwritten by the contrasting features of elsewheres.

• With high capital requirements for underwriting guaranteed annuities, new less capital-intensive designs will need to be developed in order to meet capacity needs.

• Together, these two convictions underwrote the commitment of the government to a rapid liberalisation of the economy and the sale of even the most strategic enterprises.

• They underwrote the cost of phase 1, but they have not provided the money for the subsequent three appeal phases.

• The names of the firms underwriting the offers for sale of the regional electricity companies are set out in the prospectus.

• They made a contribution but were not called upon to fulfil the complete guarantee that they had underwritten.

• Until something like that happens, there is no point in underpinning or underwriting the present chaos and inefficiency.

• In a sense, we are underwriting agreements that may be entered into but which we may never be called upon to meet.

• There is no intention to require insurance companies to research their records of business written by underwriting agents for years back.

• We are therefore proposing that these expenses should be underwritten from public funds to the extent that the debtor's assets are insufficient to meet them.

• Before privatisation, it was the taxpayer who inevitably underwrote investment.

• The taxpayer, rather than future employees or employers, is underwriting the fund, because we want to give the pensioners a fair deal.

• More important than those advantages is the fact that a single currency underwrites a single market.