Sentence examples for he was underscoring from inspiring English sources

Mr. Fitzsimmons was moderating a presentation on research about the adolescent brain, and although he was joking, he was underscoring a serious point.

He was underscoring the sense of importance that comes with what is, after all, a very rare portrayal of slavery in early 19th-century America.

When Professor Cockburn called them "the generic companies" instead of "pirates," he was underscoring an essential aspect of the knockoff drug industry.

He was underscoring that the goal ended his streak of 255 games without one, an N.H.L. record he set long ago.

He is underscoring his seriousness by preparing to produce a paper during a strike.

Or maybe he is underscoring the notion, which is indeed voiced in the play, that no matter how you dress her up, a woman is nothing more than the sum of her anatomical parts.

Instead, he's underscored his commitment to his nuclear program — and is effectively being treated as an all-but-declared nuclear power, something Trump's cancellation letter even reinforced.

"Blacks came out to vote for the first time because he was black, and you had all these whites saying, 'Oh, there's another vote from some drug addict.' " Mr. Corrigan, who supports Mr. Obama, said he believed that the president would ultimately win this mostly Democratic county but that it would be very close, a prediction he said was underscored by a recent flurry of Republican visits.

But the fact he is underscores just how fragile Democrats' hold on power is.

His main themes were the ones he had been underscoring for the last several weeks: that he wants to empower people while Mr. Gore wants to empower the government and that Mr. Gore would be too profligate with federal money.

He could have no complaints because all he had done was underscore the error of his manager's ways by picking him.