The phrase "a certain emphasis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that something is being highlighted or stressed in a particular context.
Example: "In her speech, she placed a certain emphasis on the importance of community involvement."
Alternatives: "a specific emphasis" or "a particular emphasis".
"A lot of places, there's a certain emphasis on being pretty and being individualized," he said.
There is the "fetalised" panda penis, with its unusually small and winged baculum (penis bone), which seems to place a certain emphasis on technique, and those short, passing hours when the females are ready to breed.
But it certainly magnified the force of Mr. Bronfman's playing and gave a certain emphasis to its extremes, from the fortissimos of Balakirev's showy "Islamey" to the magical, magnetic hush of a Scarlatti C minor sonata.
With a certain emphasis upon how to "save" Molycorp perhaps.
"People here put a certain emphasis on their cars, there's a special car culture, and we want to be here to take advantage of that,' Reitzle, a former top executive at German's BMW, said about the Southland.
Rather later and for similar reasons, though with a certain national emphasis, the Polish National Catholic Church came into being in the United States and Canada.
What that means is that if a Page, or profile, or group is posting content and some of that violates our polices, we always remove the violating posts at a certain point" (emphasis mine).
Regarding the latter, certain emphasis is on aligning technical regulations and standards between the EU and Russia and on enforcing IPR.
Consider using different font styling choices like bolds or italics to put certain emphasis on important words that you want to stand out to the user.
Certain emphases also developed in Chinese Buddhist practice and Buddhology, foremost among them the invocation of the name of Amitāyus Buddha (nianfo, "keeping the Buddha in mind"), whose powers to assist those who chanted his name and whose resplendent paradise are described at length in scriptures affiliated with the Pure Land (Jingtu) school.
There are a lot of ways in which we make selections and we're unaware of why we're making those choices, or placing certain emphases on, for example, the utterances of presidents versus the janitors working in the White House.
