lay emphasis on
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Critics of the new measure also say that it may be counter-productive to lay emphasis on learning more languages when the army should focus more on training, strategy and tactics to actually contain these problems.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2017
Critics of the new measure also say that it may be counter-productive to lay emphasis on learning more languages when the army should focus more on training, strategy and tactics to actually contain these problems.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2017
The Denver poll promises to lay emphasis on research on polling methods, a thing which is the urgent concern of all reliable pollsters.
From Time Magazine Archive
I lay emphasis on this, because my reviewers sometimes tell me I am cynical.
From Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
I want to lay emphasis on that fact because I did not insist enough on the living nature of muscular engines.
From A Book of Exposition by Nugent, Homer Heath
