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A committed relationship between twentysomethings would, of course, have different underpinnings than one between middle-aged people who have had, perhaps, a marriage or two under their belts.
For each one of them the dictionary was a site of political struggle clearly signifying ideological underpinnings.
For another, the normative underpinnings of popular measures of health inequality should be further clarified.
The liberal arts need not be regarded as ends in themselves--that is, to produce artists, writers, and other practitioners--but to create well-rounded human beings who are passing familiar, if only subconsciously, with the underpinnings of their society based on the bedrock of their culture.
Likewise, there is no mistaking the political underpinnings of Boyhood . There are cozy images of empire: John's obsession with cricket ("not a game ...