The problem with the budget isn't its size or its underlying philosophy, which is one of pragmatic progressivism.

What was critical, and all but overlooked, was not the overt details of the legislative package, but its underlying philosophy.

He said yesterday that the archdiocese had agreed weeks ago to drop the mission statement, whose underlying philosophy has not been compromised.

"No nudes, but be lewd" is an underlying philosophy.

Neilson, a coach consumed by an almost pathological passion for defense, spent last season installing a system and reinforcing its underlying philosophy.

These policies reflect an essential underlying regulatory philosophy:

The essays present not only the Justices' personal histories, but also their underlying legal philosophies and judicial approaches.

The multifunctional agricultural model and its underlying philosophy is, I believe, also the only right way forward for developing countries.

In Community legislation and its underlying political philosophy, competition is not an end in itself.

But in 1995 a parliamentary committee found that the agency maintained an "underlying philosophy of deflecting as many cases away from itself as possible."