Sentence examples for emphasis on pursuing from inspiring English sources

With such an emphasis on pursuing and refining an individual's creative voice, jazz is mostly immune to any lingering fallout from Tuesday's verdict.

But with the US emphasis on pursuing a political initiative centering on a thoroughly dysfunctional Iraqi politics, ISIS has been allowed to mostly run wild.

Instead, he has put greater emphasis in recent weeks on pursuing legislation to grant subpoena power to the inspectors general in dozens of federal agencies, internal watchdogs who he believes are even better-positioned to hunt for waste.

Common to all true hermits and eremitical institutions is an emphasis on living alone, on pursuing a highly regularized contemplative life (with individually generated, often experimental spiritual disciplines), and on frequently idiosyncratic and sometimes heretical interpretations of scriptural or disciplinary codes.

For an institution that has traditionally put more emphasis on fighting inflation than on pursuing its other legal mandate, insuring maximum employment, this represents a historic change one that Bernanke's successor, Janet Yellen, a Democrat of liberal inclinations, has strongly supported.

So for now they are putting more emphasis on revamping the economy than on pursuing a costly arms race.

Emphasis on could.

By Rebecca Zerzan NEW YORK, USA, 10 February 2012 – The UNICEF Executive Board closed its first regular session of 2012 today with an emphasis on strengthening partnerships and pursuing innovations to accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

With emphasis on "one".

Xi Jinping, China's president, has spread the gospel of a "new normal", by which he means that the government should place less emphasis on GDP and instead pursue structural reforms, such as fixing local-government debt problems (see page 79).

Although synthpop in part arose from punk rock, it abandoned punk's emphasis on authenticity and often pursued a deliberate artificiality, drawing on the critically derided forms such as disco and glam rock.