With some exceptions, adherents of the Salafi school steer away from purposeful political organizing; instead, they often emphasize matters of personal faith, such as the strict regulation of Islamic rituals, and of an individual's private conduct and prayer.
The Pirahã, Dr. Everett wrote, showed these linguistic gaps not because they were simple-minded, but because their culture — which emphasized concrete matters in the here and now and also lacked creation myths and traditions of art making — did not require it.
During the period of its greatest allure, the academy was directed by Wilhelm von Schadow, and many followers of the Nazarenes (a group that looked to early Renaissance styles and emphasized religious subject matter) were on the faculty.
Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, founder of another London college, emphasized basic subject matter; he held that not merely the subjects of instruction, but also the methods of teaching the candidates, should be so ordered as to be in itself a preparation for their future vocation as teachers.
I would agree that President Bush pushed some buttons by emphasizing certain matters as the pretext for war, but while Mr. Krugman sees this as dishonest, I see it simply as necessary given the circumstances.
It was a system that de-emphasized policy matters and concentrated instead on building the kind of consensus needed to cobble together the complex coalitions needed to wield power within the Liberal Democratic Party.
Although internal investigations of the kind that might be triggered by the issues that have been raised are confidential, we want to emphasize that matters of integrity in research are at the core of our mission".
And finally, if he or she is deeply spiritual, the other is similarly built to emphasize spiritual matters.
The detailed method of awake intubation was as following: Interpret to the patient properly, emphasizing cooperative matters, such as relaxing muscles, keep breathing, not to hold breath and not to feel nausea, in order to help the patient cooperate fully.
Emphasizing "a matter of scale" in a debate over the developer Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards rather than character and quality exposes the public to a dangerous ruse.
