That is a smart tactical move for her, just as Mr. Gore was smart to emphasize his determination to move out from the president's shadow by campaigning on his own.
On the same day that Mr. Zheng was executed, representatives of the country's leading food and drug regulatory bodies held a joint news conference to emphasize their determination to crack down on fake and counterfeit food and medicine.
The president's stealthy, startling trip to Iraq on a blacked-out Air Force One accompanied only by a handful of aides and a tiny press pool was intended, White House officials said, to boost the morale of troops, many of whom are disgruntled over their extended and increasingly dangerous deployment and to emphasize his determination to, as he puts it, "stay the course".
British warships sailed toward the Persian Gulf to emphasize Britain's determination to give armed support, if necessary, to its former protectorate.
Mr. Samaras is expected to emphasize Greece's determination to satisfy creditor demands and to secure the country's future in the euro in meetings with European leaders, who have underlined their determination to keep Greece in the euro zone.
While it would be nearly impossible to enforce the rule over such a vast area, the requirement seems to emphasize China's determination to compel foreign nations to take its sovereignty claims seriously.
But they acknowledged that the controversy, and the firing of one of the military's most influential commanders, served to emphasize Mr. Gates's determination to add more discipline to the Defense Department's interactions with the media.
And later, when she was working in the Clinton administration, she encouraged a colleague working on a speech about Justice Marshall to emphasize his unshakable determination to protect the underdog".
In the beginning, she confidently declared that "Brexit means Brexit," a point made to emphasize her government's determination to execute the mandate of the referendum, no matter the cost.
