The phrase "a serious emphasis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to highlight the importance or significance of a particular point or idea.
Example: "In her speech, she placed a serious emphasis on the need for environmental conservation."
Alternatives: "a strong emphasis" or "a significant emphasis".
With this episode, the JPMorgan board has placed a serious emphasis on the critical connection between information reporting and governance oversight.
Trattoria Stella, both restaurant and bar, puts a serious emphasis on local products; among the wine selections were several local reds, one from Brys Estate, another from Bowers Harbor and one from Villa Mari, a producer on the Old Mission Peninsula north of town that I had not come across before.
"If you go back to the fact that the buildings stood and took it -- one for 56 minutes, the other for an hour and 40 minutes -- there is going to be a serious emphasis on exiting," said William F. Baker of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Otherwise, Kansas City was just like Phoenix -- some promising talent with a serious emphasis on the good auditions.
But it still seems very corporate-sounding… I think we put too much serious emphasis on health and that it's a 'go, boom, boom, boom' kind of thing.
Indeed, the dearly departed Kim Jong-il had already placed serious emphasis on 2012, trumpeting it as the year when the regime's "plan for achieving prosperity will bear a brilliant fruit, and the year of a grand march, when a new century of Kim Il-sung's Korea begins".
And it's quite possible that this rather serious emphasis, all those years ago, alerted the casting director that this 9-year-old girl should play Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, rather than the umpteen thousand others who were gagging, swooning, dying to do so.
And we can only assume that this serious emphasis will extend to Snyder's next movie, "The Justice League (Part 1)." But what about the rest of the DC universe, and specifically, what about the typically lighter character of Aquaman, the superhero who can control fish? .
Meanwhile, the historical novel, typically the province of genre gardeners and conservative populists, has become an unlikely laboratory for serious writers, some of them distinctly untraditional in emphasis and concern.
Smashed guitars notwithstanding, this isn't a book with a rock 'n' roll heart; it's a serious memoir with equal emphasis on ambition and emotion.
Final words: The 2001 Tahoe is a serious sport-utility with emphasis on utility.
