"underscored the potential" is a grammatical construction that can be used in written English.
It means to emphasize or highlight the potential or the significant importance of something. Example: The new technology underscored the potential for increased efficiency and productivity in the workplace.
The gaffe underscored the potential for disputes over Japan's own wartime history to derail its popular prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
President Obama's senior adviser for energy and climate change, Carol M. Browner, underscored the potential for the suits to affect policy in a briefing with reporters in September.
The Icelandic ash cloud's return on Tuesday underscored the potential for further travel disruptions as Europe enters its peak summer travel season.
Still the new quarantine underscored the potential seriousness of a new outbreak of the disease here, only two weeks after local and international authorities declared that SARS was no longer spreading in Toronto.
Beyond the South, a poll conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey conducted earlier this week underscored the potential value of Mr. Edwards's appeal among rural voters.
The disclosure of the arrests, made over the last several months, underscored the potential threat to security as far away as the Israeli border from the disorder following the revolutions across North Africa in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.
The new estimate represents only about 19percentt of China's population, underscoring the potential for growth.
The huge number of text messages underscores the potential for call-to-action advertisements.
New discoveries in recent months also underscore the potential to open new oil frontiers.
It also underscores the potential common interests of high-speed Internet access providers and organizations that deliver complex digital media.
The latter would underscore the potential benefits for all in the region of a secure, stable and prosperous Afghanistan.
