I heard Mr. Baumgartner's accented comments as he performed the pre-jump preparations, and the pauses in-between underscored the seriousness of the moment.
The clash between Hollywood and Silicon Valley underscores a new tension between what have long been high national priorities: protecting intellectual property and promoting technological innovation.
The similarity between them was underscored Friday when, like boxers disrobing at a prefight weigh-in, the security curtains that cover each boat's underwater appendages were dropped to reveal the respective keels, bulbs, wings and rudders.
The recent Game of Phones between the FBI and Apple underscored an area in our jurisprudence that is screaming for more clarity.
During the Great Depression, the Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg drew parallels between Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and films like "Young Mr. Lincoln," underscored continuities between two fraught eras.
"He pleaded throughout his career for the development of relations between France and Germany, underscoring its central role for the construction of Europe," Mr. de Villepin said.
The suspected deal between Pakistan and North Korea underscores the enormous diplomatic complexity of the administration's task in trying to disarm North Korea, an effort that began in earnest today.
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Last year's Sunflower Movement, or three weeks of student-led demonstrations against an agreement for more liberal trade between China and Taiwan, underscore the anxiety many people have about how Taiwan will maintain its independence as it tries to build stronger political and economic ties with its much larger neighbor.
This anecdotal text exchange between friends underscores what our generation desperately wants: results.
This heterogeneity in utility weights between studies underscores the importance of a catalog such as ours.
