So I want to underscore, before we move on to the next issue, which is post-Saddam Iraq, that much will depend on the war itself.
But just how difficult progress on the security issues that separate the two sides could be was underscored even before the talks began on Monday morning by the lack of a working agenda for the two-day meeting.
The caller had been ejected from a movie for texting, violating a prohibition against using mobile devices underscored in videos shown before movies, and Mr. League decided that the phone message was fodder for yet another public service announcement.
The short span between the races set Dalton up as a strong underdog, a point he underscored to one and all before the start.
The scale of America's fiscal problems was underscored just hours before the meeting in Tokyo, when the Obama administration announced that the budget deficit this year would reach $1.1 trillion, exceeding $1 trillion for a fourth straight year.
Their contrasting appearances underscored the choice before Iowa's Democratic caucusgoers: Clinton, the pragmatic achiever who promises to expand on President Obama's record, or Sanders, the thundering voice for the working class who pledges to wrest power from the nation's wealthy.
He underscored that he had never been in trouble before.
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining has been remixed before a fake trailer makes the film into a happy romantic comedy, underscored by Peter Gabriel's "Salisbury Hill," for instance.
But the bombing on Tuesday, like those before it, underscored the difficulties Mr. Putin's security forces faced in trying to stop suicide bombers, even in the heavily policed center of Moscow.
Even before Brexit underscored these concerns, Blunt and his cohorts (Gassman D and DJ Escrow) used this dark, dubby, delirious, and deeply British album as a way of questioning the nature of nationalism and what it means to be "from" anywhere.
We've all heard this before, of course, but Winfield underscored his remarks with an example.
