That their season was effectively over was underlined by the fact that they had already pensioned off their leading scorer, Heidar Helguson, on a free transfer, three months short of his 36th birthday.
The need for reform and modernisation was underlined by the intelligence debacle over Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction, and the July 2005 suicide attacks on London transport.
And the visitors' superiority was underlined when lock Swinson powered over in the dying minutes to secure the bonus point.
The seriousness of concern over welfare cuts was underlined when it emerged that three Tory MPs were asked to step down as patrons of prominent disability charities.
However, Zebre's threat from close-range scrums was underlined when Vunisa combined with Leonard to send Berryman over.
The gloomy prognosis was underlined by plans from Lloyds Bank and regional airline Flybe to shed over 1,200 jobs.
This isolation was underlined on Monday.
The word great was underlined.
The simplicity of preparation and the much higher stability of the above-described candidate reference materials should be underlined as an advantage over bottled standard gaseous calibration mixtures.
PHW over 0.05 are underlined.
