It should be added that the absence of proper justification of the ideas and practices underpinning major aspects of the education experienced by primary school pupils is not unique to Leeds.

Employee democracy is a term initiated by Dean Adams Curtis to combine the concept of the employee-owned corporation with the ideas underpinning workplace democracy, industrial democracy, as well as worker self-management and the co-determination laws of countries like Germany.

Bill Wilson credited Sam Shoemaker as a key source of the ideas underpinning Alcoholics Anonymous:

The historian John M. Barry, author of "The Great Influenza" (Viking Adult, 2004), questioned an idea underpinning the study's conclusions.

The idea underpinning the creation of the nation's 2,695 charter schools is that the money that districts now pay to educate a child follows the child to his new charter school, and therefore taxpayers face no added costs.

The most significant idea underpinning Hegelian Dialectics, which was incorporated into ideas that continue to be repeated, and which later formed the putative basis of modern intellectual anti-African racism, was Hegel's claim that Upland Negroes continued to exist in a state of consciousness which he called as the Infancy of Humanity.

We are going to reform the Stability Pact not because its internal logic has failed, nor the ideas underpinning it, but rather for the simple reason that too many countries have failed to comply with its terms, notably the larger countries.

In other words, the idea underpinning the law of tort is that if someone harms someone else, they should make up for it.