Sentence examples for underscoring the absence of from inspiring English sources

There were the keys, alone now, underscoring the absence of the wallet.

Underscoring the absence of major change, Rousseff recently moved to seek the support of conservative rural politicians, including senator José Sarney, whose family have controlled Maranhão for more than 50 years.

The space had a feeling, he said, that "underscores the absence of the worker".

The enmity between Kiir and Machar – two heroes of the secession struggle – has also served to underscore the absence of John Garang.

In Iraq, as an advance unit from the Black Watch arrived at their new base south of Baghdad, more kidnappings underscored the absence of security.

Photographs of a bloody nose and a little arm in a bright-pink cast underscore the absence of sentimentality, as well as a genuine tenderness.

More: Greece's relapse into deepening fragility underscored the absence of — and current need for — what former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had called Germany's obligation to show "some heart".

Instead of camouflaging the fatuity of the screenplay, the crude, hammy performances only underscore the absence of wit in dialogue that has the deadly thud of a college student's first draft.

WASHINGTON — A party-line Senate committee vote on legislation to remake the nation's health care system underscored the absence of political consensus on what would be the biggest changes in social policy in more than 40 years.

Some scholars have speculated that the attacks underscore the absence of pressure-release valves in a society that is going through rapid economic upheaval, where the gap between the wealthy and the destitute is widening, and where corrupt officials often exercise power arbitrarily.

For Liang et al. the use of abnormal fertilized zygotes underscores the absence of any intention to explore further embryonal development in vitro or in vivo, thereby at least formally avoiding some of the ethics controversies.