"I have to emphasize to him that without an education he won't go far," Ms. Reddick said.
"I wanted to emphasize to him that it would be an important documentary," said Berkow, who had interviewed Koufax in the past.
Finally, both Republicans and Democrats can use Mr. Hu's coming visit to emphasize — to him and to the many Chinese citizens who will be following — just how frustrated many Americans are with the economy's woes.
"I had elected to slightly de-emphasize him, and she said, 'Dobby's going to be important, and so you want to revisit the scene,' " Mr. Kloves said.
The ball, he emphasized, not him.
When talking business, I once emphasized to him how much safer I felt traveling by air, rather than road, during a previous tour in Iraq.
During the meeting, we emphasized to him that the C.I.A. should provide any documents responsive to our requests, even if the commission had not specifically asked for them.
He said it emphasized for him two big advantages of chartering: more time for work in the city he was visiting and less time getting there and back.
"What I emphasized to him was that I wanted to make sure that the F.B.I. would be politically independent and have no political interference, and he agreed to that completely".
Describing a conversation she had earlier Friday with Algeria's prime minister, Abdelmalek Sellal, Mrs. Clinton said she had emphasized to him that "the utmost care must be taken to preserve innocent life".
But Mr. Ashcroft said that in their contacts with Mr. Berg, the Coalition Provisional Authority and F.B.I. agents in Iraq "emphasized to him the dangerous environment that existed at the time".
