Examples of underwrote

• Until cities underwrote such costs they simply subdivided house lots near the centre of towns and thus further increased population density.

• By the 1980s, the international context that underwrote these earlier approaches to development was substantially transformed.

• The government underwrote these bonds to settle debts or to secure money advances.

• As this suggests, the central state underwrote and directly contributed to the growing 'nationalization' of middle-class identity in the first half of the twentieth century.

• 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.

• Livestock was their passion, but arable prices underwrote the spread of their farming over 3000 acres by the later 1780s.

• Evelyn's schema underwrote a planned inquiry into a world of practice to which the learned were increasingly looking for knowledge of and power over nature.

• Steeply progressive income taxes underwrote a comprehensive welfare state, with government-financed pensions, health care and education.

• But the science of lunar influence and the medical theory of the humours underwrote and authorized the lunar calendars, which in turn helped authorize other sorts of calendar prognostics.

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

• It is common knowledge there that he renewed and underwrote those obligations and said that we would honour our word.

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

• For half a generation they had existed on fixed margins which the government underwrote; the government did all the buying and took all the risks.

• The commission insisted that the city council underwrote the cost of the scheme.

• Throughout the 80s, that policy continued even though interest rates on the investments that underwrote the policies were falling.