"a reduced emphasis" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something is not given as much attention or importance as it could be. Here is an example: "While the company's profits increased significantly, there was a reduced emphasis on employee satisfaction and development."
In your call for a reduced emphasis on testing ("The Trouble With Testing Mania," editorial, July 14), you refer to a review of teacher education programs by the National Council on Teacher Quality, noting that, in contrast to Finland, the United States "has an abysmal system of teacher preparation".
The consequences of Rousseau's basic view have been (1) a reduced emphasis on knowing and greater emphasis on acting and doing, (2) a promotion of positive interests in learning, and (3) an encouragement of the child to depend on his own resources.
Some argue that women's right to make autonomous reproductive decisions is very much at stake with rapidly advancing medical technology, and further, that the focus of prenatal technologies on fetal health may lead to a reduced emphasis on maternal wellbeing [ 27, 28].
And EU nations will be allowed to buy in credits for emissions reductions far from Europe, and count them against as much as 90% of their national reduction targets.Eurocrats say a reduced emphasis on auctioning permits won't undermine the benefits of the package; carbon-cutting discipline still comes from the ceiling on the number of allowances issued.
Another, more speculative hypothesis, is that, following the logic of Adamo and Spiteri's model [22], humans are exposed to unusually fast levels of pathogenic fluctuation relative to life history, resulting in a reduced emphasis on stable cues of past disease resistance, and increased emphasis on condition.
A reduced emphasis on index condition and diagnosis-cure models in long-term conditions is needed.
The second lesson he would draw would be of the need to rethink the way economics is taught, with a much reduced emphasis on mathematical models and the restoration to the curriculum of economic history.
E.g., Andre and Filip (2012) find evidence not only for reduced emphasis on reliability but for a reduction in conservatism in general in financial statements of EU-countries.
The Edge's guitar playing on Zooropa marks a further shift away from his trademark style, highlighted by a heavier reliance on guitar effects and the songs' reduced emphasis on his guitar parts.
"I liked the minerality and acidity, and the reduced emphasis on winemaking".
This reduced emphasis on the traditional ballet vocabulary might appear to place him at odds with City Ballet, which strives to maintain the highest standards of classical technique.
