'dominant emphasis' is an acceptable term in written English, and can be used to refer to a concept or idea that is given the greatest importance or emphasis when compared to other concepts or ideas.
For example: "The dominant emphasis of the study was on the psychological effects of poverty."
But "the political novel," which the critic Irving Howe defined in terms of "a dominant emphasis, a significant stress," is more elusive.
First, there is the current, dominant emphasis on basic research as the strategic choice, supported by its narrowly tuned performance metrics at the universities.
The concept arose out of several critiques of the early dominant emphasis on organizations as social instruments rationally designed to achieve specified goals.
Still, the dominant emphasis is on promoting hope, not inciting fear.
To this point, the dominant emphasis has been on biomedical interventions in relation to the individual, and these have been guided by a disease-based model.
Within primary care, consultation-therapy that sharply focuses childhood experience is clearly the exception; the overwhelmingly dominant emphasis is on the "here and now".
Art and finance have greatly benefited from a shared role in the postindustrial reshaping of inner-city landscapes and a dominant political emphasis on unregulated market relations.
These examples reflect the dominant inward emphasis taken by decision-makers.
"I looked at the competitors and what they were doing and saw that they were Spanish dominant and had an emphasis on Latin America," said Francisco Cortes, the site's general manager.
While he didn't mention Apple, Google, Samsung or even Nokia by name, the speech was clearly aimed at the fact that the mobile world has largely developed with a heavy emphasis on dominant players.
The new emphasis becomes dominant from the period of the vibhāṣā compendia onward and is evident in a shift in the terminology used by the Abhidharma to describe the nature of dharmas.
