But in taking on Mr. Gingrich as well, it is underscoring its determination to play an active role in the opposing party's primary.
While the deal collapsed at the last minute, Google's interest underscored its determination to become a force in mobile advertising.
While it is too early to assess whether the city's strong-arm strategy is working, the effort underscores its determination and financial desperation.
But the efforts of Mr. Abbas to join hands with Hamas also underscore his determination to pursue Palestinian statehood unilaterally and his willingness to risk a major rupture with the United States and Israel.
For Microsoft, the bid underscores both the company's urgency and its determination to succeed online.
Choosing the peace process over Syria underscores not the administration's interest in the Middle East but its determination to look past it.
By turning to Mr. Lieberman, the first Democratic senator to aggressively repudiate President Clinton for his affair with a White House intern, Mr. Gore underscored his determination to shed the shadow of Mr. Clinton.
Underscoring his determination to reach out to the United States, Mr. Zapatero noted that he had spent a month touring the country in 1990 under a program called "Leaders With a Future" sponsored by the State Department.
Underscoring his determination to seal the deal, he sent Ellen Tauscher, the under secretary of state for arms control, to Geneva to help resolve remaining differences, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to travel to Moscow next week.
But in choosing someone from his own inner circle, Mr. Obama underscored his determination to keep Russian-American relations a centerpiece of his foreign policy after his early push to reset the relationship following years of growing tension.
And that underscores his determination to be an omniscient and omnipresent commentator on health-related affairs, one-stop shopping for all your somatic curiosities and some of your spiritual and intellectual ones to boot.
