Example sentences for: underscored

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  • Observers variously said the incident underscored 1) the imminent decline of the "Puff Daddy" empire; 2) Combs' futile attempts to gain "street credibility"; and 3) the impossibility of blending the gangsta and corporate cultures.

  • It's about the little moments of anomie in the daily routine, underscored by cheerful violence and Tarantino-esque riffing.

  • Pavitt underscored the responsibility of the particular field location where the suspects were being tracked at any given time.

  • But the Times and the Daily Telegraph both underscored the political risks that Trimble, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is running by backing off from his party's traditional "no guns, no government" stand--a policy of refusing to share power with Adams' Sinn Fein Party in a devolved Northern Ireland parliament before the Irish Republican Army hands over any of its weapons.

  • PTEN is altered or deleted in many human cancers [ 7 8 9 10 ] . In-vitro, cells that are deficient in PTEN show elevated PI-3Kinase signaling [ 11 ] . Reintroduction of PTEN in a variety of cancer cells, including glioma, breast, bladder and ovarian cancer cells, causes G1 arrest, inhibits tumorigenesis, and promotes anoikis [ 12 13 14 ] . Mechanistically, Akt activity is decreased, cell motility is decreased, expression of two cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors p27 and p21 is increased, cyclin D1 is down-regulated, Rb phosphorylation is inhibited, and signaling via Grb2/SOS is suppressed [ 11 15 ] . The link between PTEN and cell growth is underscored by genetic experiments in mice.


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