Mr. Huckabee's strategic switchback underscores the extraordinary seat-of-the-pants nature of his campaign, visibly still struggling to adjust to its sudden jump in the last month from dark horse to front-runner status.
The meetings' purpose, a senior official said, is twofold: to underscore the "strategic partnership" between the United States and Afghanistan, and to underscore to the American public that the Afghan government is more than Mr. Karzai.
The exhibits, labeled in Spanish, include an impressive assortment of weaponry as well as original military maps of the area that underscore the strategic importance of capturing the Valencia road.
WASHINGTON — The details of President Obama's plan to reduce federal deficits by more than $3 trillion over 10 years, which he laid out Monday morning, underscore a strategic White House shift away from the pursuit of compromise toward a more partisan confrontation.
To underscore the strategic shift, Boyce spun off the company's Appalachian mines (low-growth, low-profit underground operations) into a new listed company, Patriot Coal.
To underscore the strategic reality I've already outlined, the U.S. and China are the world's dominant powers.
The island is a non-self-governing territory – or as some put it, a colony – whose strategic importance is underscored by the degree to which it is militarized.
Also, the strategic funds statement underscored the risk associated with the semiconductor group's aggressive competitive positioning and the related high level of investment requirements.
Earlier this week, the regime scored a decisive victory over the once rebel-held southwestern city of Qusayr (a vital corridor to Lebanon of immense strategic value), which underscored the Syrian military's strength and the influence of Hezbollah inside Syria.
"I can only underscore that the strategic nuclear arms treaty, worked out on the strict basis of parity, in our view fully answers to the national interests of Russia and the United States," Sergey V. Lavrov, the foreign minister, told the Interfax news agency.
An acquisition of Millennial would underscore a bigger strategic move at AOL (and now, Verizon) to continue building out its digital ads business, with more mobile services, both on the back of its own content operations (AOL/Verizon own TechCrunch, Huffington Post, Engadget and a number of other online and video properties) and for third-party publishers.
