"emphasizing skill" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to explain that you are focusing or putting more importance on a skill. For example, you can say: "We are emphasizing skill development during this training session."
By the end of the 16th century, their lighter weapon, the rapier, and a simple, nimble, and controlled fencing style, emphasizing skill and speed rather than force, spread throughout Europe.
In contemporary games, there have been two developments: one emphasizing skill (as in the modern game of jacks, or jackstones) and the other, the accumulation of as many counters as possible.
Our science graduate programs do an excellent job of conveying scientific and analytical skills, but emphasizing skills needed to practice science in a wider range of careers would likely pay large dividends, scientifically and in the employability of graduates.
Reid, who won three National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II titles as the coach at Southern Connecticut State before coming to Connecticut four seasons ago, has relied on players from urban areas and has emphasized skill rather than physical strength.
And hockey's critics, not all of them grounded in the sport, suggested that the entertaining zest of Olympic play, with its liberalized rules that emphasized skill, exposed the pedestrian quality of the N.H.L. Perhaps the Canadiens can bring back some of the élan of the Flying Frenchmen tradition.
Brown contended that professional basketball would succeed only if there were sufficient financial support to nurse the league over the early lean years, if the game emphasized skill instead of brawling, and if all players were restricted to contracts with a reserve rule protecting each team from raiding by another club.
Training of PTCA thus very much emphasizes skill building for hand eye coordination.
In-service training on newborn resuscitation employs a competency-based approach with both midwives and doctors; it follows the same evidence-based standards for service delivery as pre-service training and emphasizes skill development.
BMW's instructors emphasize skills used in everyday driving.
Most woodworking training programs emphasize skills that are, in my shop, obsolete.
PART of the challenge for the veterans is to emphasize skills from past jobs or the military, Mr. Placke said.
