It would be reassuring to have a chief executive who understood the local business practices, the country's cultural underpinnings and the language.

It's not a serious place, but it has to have cultural underpinnings.

"He's very interested in the cultural underpinnings of establishing a democracy and a free society," he said.

Even before the germ-ridden Europeans arrived, the cultural underpinnings of Maya society were already coming undone.

Named for the skill with which its adult characters handle their inhibitions, "Little Children" presents the full cultural and emotional underpinnings of this suburb-shaking event.

It was as if Mr. Bernstein and his American context had lost their cultural underpinnings.

I understood it at the time and now I understand some of the cultural and economic underpinnings, yes?

But the police and civic officials were careful to play down any notion that such a horrific event had any cultural underpinnings.

One of the king's last official acts was to outlaw polygamy in 1934, leaving behind the cultural underpinnings that now support Thai prostitution.

Some of the dramatic features included here explore the social and cultural underpinnings of the music as they locate its roots.