Sentence examples for means of underscoring from inspiring English sources

But Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has said some form of written assurances might be acceptable as a means of underscoring President Bush's declaration that the United States had no intention of attacking North Korea.

Robles sees his work, in part, as a means of underscoring the spirit of dance that's worth prioritizing.

Anyway, Goldberg continued by predictably naming his "black friends" as a means of underscoring the Republican record on racial tolerance.

Other composers, too, sought out harmonic as well as melodic and rhythmic means to underscore the content of passion, restlessness, mystery, or tragedy in their scores.

The name of program was meant to underscore the fundamental value of equality of opportunity.

And I don't think this is an intentional comment on the variability of people, meant to underscore observations like, "But does any one of us ever truly know another?" That's Midge speaking, in a midplay monologue in which she unburdens her soul to the audience.

But Ms. Thurber tends toward a grim determinism in linking the two, so that the outbreaks of violence and brutality often feel pasted-on, or trumped up to give a sudden dramatic charge to plays that largely consist of mundane dialogue meant to underscore the blunted sensibilities of the characters.

The move by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is not expected to lead to actual license suspensions at any of the firms, but it was meant to underscore the seriousness of the commission's questions about trades in which companies appear to have sent energy out of state and then back into California at sharply higher prices.

It was named for a young victim whose name was chosen at random from the lists of the dead, a gesture meant to underscore the tragic anonymity of the Holocaust's casualties.

In classic D.C.-style, the story was meant to underscore the stouthearted stoicism of the men of power who reportedly did not flinch at the menacing antics of the lowly ones.

All of which was meant to underscore the idea that critics are often wrong about shows.