The chancellor reinforced this message with a call for Britain and Germany to remain "united and determined" in reforming the EU and promoting competitiveness.
Revelations that Michael Jordan had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars gambling barely dented his appeal, since the story reinforced the image of him as a fierce competitor.
Clegg's warm-up act was Lib Dem president Sal Brinton, who reinforced the sense that this election is becoming a comically unedifying turf war over meaningless bits of vocabulary.
By Tuesday a centre for diagnostics and observation built by Unicef was in place at the hospital, and screenings at the border with Senegal will be reinforced over the next days.
Scientists have spent years devising its cross-hatched reinforced Kevlar skeleton and its Twistatec technology which "allows for easy insertion".
Instead he mentions the company so many times I start to believe he's negotiating for a job at Fox, a suspicion reinforced when he suggests he would take one if offered.
The housing on the gated estate had small windows, reinforced steel doors and grey, aluminium, military-style roofs.
That was reinforced after the US company registered the iWatch trademark in Japan, and last week described a new "M7" processor in its new top-end 5s iPhone which could be used to monitor movement.
Thursday's proceedings won't change that - if anything, the events will have reinforced the divisions in the political landscape.
I love the idea of ideas, and the promise of order and logic applied to a subject which, when viewed from the political lobby, seems too often a matter of naked ambition reinforced by a willingness to spill blood.
These maps of Africa, drawn up by a small group of western cartographers, symbolically reinforced Europeans' sense of control over their mapped territories and subjects, but they didn't betray much in the way of real information.
