Sentence examples for attempt to emphasise from inspiring English sources

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Microsoft has revealed that its latest operating system will be called Windows 10 – skipping 'Windows 9' in an apparent attempt to emphasise a shift in focus towards mobile devices and the Internet.

In this poisonous context, Zardari's move was seen as a deliberate attempt to emphasise Islamabad's growing freedom of action as the American regional presence declines with next year's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

In an attempt to emphasise regional balance in the top team, Corbyn said the appointment of Reynolds meant there were 10 MPs from the north of England on the frontbench.

Upstairs the exhibition has more focus on the elaborate processes involved in creating his womenswear, but throughout, there is an attempt to emphasise androgyny even when it isn't being addressed directly within the collection.

Shekhovtsov compared the fire to historical "false flag" cases, such as when the KGB and the Stasi used agents to paint swastikas in West Germany in the 1950s in an attempt to emphasise the country's failure to break fully from Nazism.

In this sense, the ALOA model matches the basis of learning-oriented assessment (Carless, 2007), "an attempt to emphasise the learning features of assessment and promote their development" (p. 58).

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He had earlier sought to downplay the images, claiming he had been "attempting to emphasise my point".

The multimillionaire art collector had sought to downplay the images showing him grabbing Nigella Lawson around the neck, claiming that he was "attempting to emphasise my point".

Instead of providing a monumental, pompous, singular building, the centre attempts to emphasise all of the parts that make it up.

He explained it was "an intense debate about the children" in which, he said, "I held Nigella's neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point".

The deployment comes after Obama's attempts to emphasise diplomacy over confrontation in dealing with Iran – a contrast to the Bush administration's approach – have failed to persuade Tehran to open its nuclear installations to international controls.

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