Sentence examples for an attempt to emphasize from inspiring English sources

"Amsterdam," he said, was transitional and represented an attempt to emphasize character more.

This reminds me of what Robert Maynard Hutchins as the president of the University of Chicago did in 1939, when he eliminated varsity football from the university in an attempt to emphasize academics over athletics, calling football an "infernal nuisance" in an institution of higher learning.

The new test was developed in an attempt to emphasize oral communicative skills.

Our case report is an attempt to emphasize the need to suspect injury to the penis in a young adult who might present to the emergency department with an entirely different complaint and also to treat any penile trauma as an emergency.

Hutchins eliminated varsity football from the university in an attempt to emphasize academics over athletics, instituted the undergraduate college's liberal-arts curriculum known as the Common Core, and organized the university's graduate work into its current four divisions.

This paper is also an attempt to emphasize the importance of population structure and history to explain the TE chromosomal distribution.

As it is, the contrast between his radiant religiosity and the grubby materialism of the Israelis seems exaggerated, and the smudged, shaky video photography feels like a deliberate attempt to emphasize the ugliness into which James is plunged.

However, this paper is a first attempt to emphasize mathematical peculiarities of the Regularisation approach in space plasma observations in a general manner in order to provide a useful and versatile schema for the wide range of space plasma problems.

On September 28, in a highly publicized attempt to emphasize Israeli sovereignty, government opposition leader Ariel Sharon accompanied by a large police contingent paid a visit to the site, sparking widespread rioting in the Palestinian-controlled areas and among Israeli Arabs in Israel.

Part of PBS's attempt to emphasize American material, the film comes with a suspicious aura of tokenism or political correctness, but "Skinwalkers" stands on its own as a sophisticated murder mystery, embedded in a culture rarely seen on screen.

The Symbolists' attempt to emphasize the essential and innate qualities of the poetic medium was based on their conviction of the supremacy of art over all other means of expression or knowledge.