Sentence examples for Inordinate emphasis from inspiring English sources

And he needs to cultivate good relations with a Republican leadership that puts an inordinate emphasis on party unity.

The group said the railroad's managers had deferred scheduled maintenance and sacrificed safety while placing inordinate emphasis on keeping the trains running on time.

The controversy in Atlanta gets to a flaw of the new Wild Card system, which puts an inordinate emphasis on a single game.

"We place an inordinate emphasis on elections alone," noted Sumit Ganguly, an expert on the region at the University of Texas at Austin.

When analyzing development projects, applied and critical scholars alike often place inordinate emphasis on the outcomes, depicting development projects as happening to people and overlooking the interactional nature of projects.

"We are concerned about the moral relativism and inordinate emphasis on winning that are sweeping over sports," Hoffman told me.

Were they under inordinate stress?

"The capitalization of things seems to place an inordinate, almost private emphasis on something," he said, turning it into a Kleenex or a Frigidaire.

Neither book seems to fit the needs of a working archaeologist — one seems geared toward picking up women at a bar, the other places an inordinate amount of emphasis on the names of fruits and vegetables — but they're good for a laugh on a slow afternoon.

People are under an inordinate amount of stress.

"AN INORDINATE fondness for beetles".