It's a tragedy that underlines the flurry of broken dreams and shattered hopes in the country.
Better still a coalition of nations that underlines the international legalities.
Alien for the teens and nostalgic for the adults, it gives the production a timeless quality that underlines the universality of its message.
"The absence of black-skinned players in Zenit's team is just an important tradition that underlines the identity of the club – and nothing more," it reads.
It's a work staged with immaculate coherence, each of its three movements lit with a different colour design that underlines the changing dynamic between dance and score.
The Chronicles of Narnia will go on general release in China next spring in a move that underlines the growing appetite for global cinema in the Asian nation.
In the capital, a city that underlines the very authority of the Assad family's decades of rule, hundreds gathered after Friday Prayer at the al-Hassan Mosque.
"For us the absence of black Zenit players is just an important tradition that underlines the team's identity and nothing more".
But in Serbia, he remains a deeply reviled figure, a complication that underlines the challenges to overcoming ethnic enmities in a region where memories run deep.
In another deal that underlines the rapid shift to mobile media, Verizon agreed to pay $4.4 billion for AOL, a once-pioneering internet company.
In a radical move that underlines the scale of the challenge facing Britain's established big grocers, Sainsbury's has teamed up with Denmark's biggest retailer, Dansk Supermarked, to build the new Netto business, starting in the north of England.
