underlie
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a more conciliatory message in a speech this weekend, but the underlying theme remains one of very tough love for the Continent.
“The underlying values of democracy and human rights—these are also the fundamentals for prosperity.”
Crypto markets have their own dynamics: Prices change daily based on a concept with no particular underlying fundamentals beyond speculation.
Even if agents look different from each other, their underlying objectives often reveal patterns in timing, network movement and narrative trajectory that are unlikely to occur naturally.
From Salon
The underlying philosophy, one of Swensen’s longtime lieutenants explained on a podcast last year, was that knowing the right time to cash out is part of what endowments pay private-equity managers for.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.