Sentence examples for for overemphasis from inspiring English sources

Maybe he'll point an index finger into the air just for overemphasis.

Indeed, school improvement agendas have been blamed for overemphasis on measurable test-scores with scant attention to subjects enhancing intergroup co-existence, e.g. peace education, human rights education or global citizenship (UNESCO 1996; Davies 2004).

Although Locke was evidently a good student, he did not enjoy his schooling; in later life he attacked boarding schools for their overemphasis on corporal punishment and for the uncivil behaviour of pupils.

Mr. Bloomberg is a polarizing figure in the education world — praised as a passionate advocate for a reform movement that emphasizes competition and results, but also criticized for an overemphasis on data, like test scores and graduation rates.

That number had attracted a lot of attention in the press — to the point that Hart and Risley's study was sometimes faulted for an overemphasis on the sheer quantity of words.

Partly as a compensation for the overemphasis of orthodoxy upon doctrine at the expense of morals, Pietism summoned Protestant believers to greater seriousness of personal faith and practical living.

Criticized for its overemphasis on jails, a local committee overseeing realignment in Fresno recently approved using $848,000 from its state total of $20.8 million this year to expand drug rehabilitation programs for people released from jail.

1525 72; see Isserles, Moses ben Israel) was one of many Ashkenazi (German-rite) rabbis who severely criticized the Shulḥan ʿarukh for its overemphasis on the customs of Sephardic (Spanish-rite) Jews.

Andrew Stark (1993) faults academic business ethics for its overemphasis on issues of public policy and top-level corporate decision making.

The danger of overemphasis of past errors is that the drive for control may be weakened.

And Mr. Caffey treats her childhood somewhat sophomorically; there's a facts-of-life discussion scene, for instance, and an overemphasis on what appears to have been a minor episode of molestation by a school principal.