Mr. Hafetz's argument underscored a crucial question in the trial of Mr. Marshall: Where did Mrs. Astor, who died two years ago at 105, want her money to go after she died?
The deepening red ink underscores a crucial question about the government's plan: Will lenders deploy their new-found capital quickly, as the Treasury hopes, and unlock the flow of credit through the economy?
The terse exchanges between the rivals, echoed even more vociferously by their campaign representatives and surrogates, underscored a central question both candidates are grappling with: How do they present themselves as practicing a new kind of politics, while they, and particularly their allies, are still pointing out flaws in each other?
Shell's oil spill in the North Sea underscores an important question about drilling in the U.S. Arctic Ocean: Are we really ready to expose our Arctic waters to the threat of a major oil spill?
For all the impressive technology that allows the Moto X to listen, at all times, for the sound of our voice, or pay for goods with a swipe of a phone, the smartphone ultimately underscores an uncomfortable question consumer tech companies are skirting around: When it comes to smartphones, are we out of ideas?
This truth is underscored by a question posed in oral argument by Justice Alito in a case relating to violent video games.
That question underscores a difference between the trial of Mr. Malvo, now 18, and that of the other defendant in the shootings, John A. Muhammad, who is 42.
Underscoring all questions will be the woman's perception of how, if at all, participating in the intervention created or affected these changes.
The erratic results underscore the question of just how engaged such consultants get: of whether, once they've lofted a few ideas and cashed their paychecks, they feel any real pride of ownership or bother to follow through.
The ability of the genome-wide consensus sequence of the Rap1 binding site to function in HMR-E's role as a silencer underscored the question of how the yeast cell prevents spurious silencing in Rap1 and Abf1-bound regions of the genome.
