The phrase "emphasizes characteristics" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the importance or highlighting specific traits or features of a subject.
Example: "The report emphasizes characteristics that distinguish successful leaders from their peers."
Alternatives: "highlights traits" or "underscores features."
The problem is that, across cultures, this leader prototype has historically emphasized characteristics thought to be masculine rather than feminine.
The literature on therapeutic landscapes has mostly emphasized characteristics of local places.
Selection criteria emphasized characteristics and skills associated with responsibilities related to health promotion and linkages to facility-based care.
While they acknowledged individual differences in terms of caste, language, ethnicity and religion, they emphasized characteristics and experiences they had in common.
In the later decades of the twentieth century, this view of clinicians and patients as obedient adopters of facts and recommendations was replaced by two somewhat divergent viewpoints: those emphasizing characteristics of the individual versus those emphasizing the role of the broader contexts of economics, communities, organizations, cultures, and policies.
The medullary cavity was gradually invaded and the presence of hypointense regions was emphasized, characteristic of necrotic islets and amalgam artifacts at the site of injection (Fig. 6B; day 18, black arrowhead).
The acute and the chronic illness models each emphasizes different characteristics in the conceptualization of disease.
Nevertheless, Plato emphasizes certain characteristics of both that demonstrate a sustained and consistent engagement with the two concepts.
Much of the literature on the value of GSV for auditing environments necessarily emphasizes visual characteristics such as the decay of the built environment (Odgers et al. 2012), roadside signage (Less et al. 2015), or large species (Rousselet et al. 2013) by virtue of the nature and limitations of GSV.
