While Mr. Gachechiladze's success has helped the opposition, it has also underscored the lack of a dominant antigovernment figure.
The debate over aid, some analysts said, underscored the lack of a fresh strategy for dealing with Egypt.
Much of the "autobiography" is so meager and bears so few of Mr. Bush's own fingerprints that to some reviewers it simply underscored his lack of depth.
His appointment raised some eyebrows because of his previous close association with S4C, which for critics underscored the lack of suitably qualified independent candidates for the post.
Although witnesses said American forces demonstrated considerable restraint throughout a two-and-a-half-hour standoff, the incident underscored their lack of crowd-control equipment.
Richard Rosenberg, a lawyer for Bouterse, called the sentence "very harsh", but was glad Scheindlin "underscored the lack of any clear connection to any actual terrorism".
The factory had been hailed in recent years as a model enterprise by local officials, but the deadly accident underscored the lack of rigorous safety inspections by officials.
Britain has fared better in terms of raw numbers, starting in 1987 when the first non-white MPs, including Paul Boateng, were elected on the Labour party ticket following urban race riots that underscored the lack of black progress.
The requests only underscored his lack of authority; the alleged abuse had taken place in his own country, and if American troops weren't there, Karzai almost certainly wouldn't be, either.
But Tom Jawetz, a lawyer with the civil liberties union's National Prison Project, said the new death at the same jail underscored the lack of accountability in immigration detention nationwide.
