An Orange Order spokesman said: "This preposterous decision by the Parades Commission only underlines the increasing perception that its determinations are dictated by the threat of physical force opposition to our parades.
In addition, the response of the majority of the Irish public, whose attitude veers from a warm welcome to benign indifference, also underlines how isolated the republican dissidents are in modern Ireland.
In addition, the overemphasis on the local man and woman underlines another important axiom about Irish elections: they are in fact 43 separate byelections, often fought on localised issues.
The lobbying push underlines the sensitivity surrounding Pope Francis's highly anticipated encyclical on the environment, whose aim will be to frame the climate change issue as a moral imperative.
The detail of the latest poll, which was conducted between Friday afternoon and Sunday and followed most of the manifesto launches, underlines how the race for No 10 is on a knife-edge.
This story is not just being played out north of the border: UK-wide polling shows the Tories and Labour scoring some of their lowest-ever combined shares of the vote, the inconclusive result of the last general election suggested a very significant juncture had been reached – and the fact that next year's result is anyone's guess only underlines the point.
A key attraction for foreign investors was Britain's EU membership – which underlines the extreme risks of withdrawal.
Politically, the prime minister has caught himself in a trap in which he at one point thought he had caught the Tories: the trap of having to oppose a fiscal stimulus just when the need for one is growing, a stance that underlines his own responsibility for the parlous state of the public finances.
That only underlines once again the view held on this side of the sea that there is one law for English, Welsh and Scottish subjects and another for those in Northern Ireland regardless of which part of the sectarian divide they grew up on.
The milestone of the 1,500th company to sign up also underlines the power of consumers who opt to give their business to companies that have become accredited.
In his video installation Barflies, which is at the Site Gallery in Sheffield until September 7, Chakravarthi stations himself in a variety of pubs and clubs and tries to get some attention, resulting in a subversive artwork that underlines the distinction between outward appearance and inward reality, according to the Guardian's review.
