He was a hero to French fans for his all-or-nothing style, and how better to underline it than with nothing?
Klinsmann, meanwhile, is revelling in the chance to further the growth and popularity of football in the US, and how better to underline that development than with a win against his homeland?
It will provide new companies with the cash and management know-how to help them grow fast.But the deal serves to underline how slow Mr Murdoch has been to move into new media.
"This was part of the fight back against the defamation I was subjected to and it was, I suppose, a chance to underline how hideous the process was but also to show people how I was, rather than how I was depicted by some parts of the press," he says.
So if this new novel is good enough, it may serve to underline how hard it is to write a novel today and how journalism when it becomes an existential species of non-fiction can generally be superior to the novel, superior even on metaphysical grounds — but this last I don't dare go near.
Jarre said: "I wanted to underline how threatened we are, not only by chemical pollution, but also by sound pollution".
He doesn't mean to be rude, he's just trying to underline how hard it is to make interesting music.
Last week, Miliband used a slew of statistics to underline how the rich are getting much richer to justify his theft of the mansion tax idea from the Liberal Democrats.
