Sentence examples for getting the emphasis from inspiring English sources

He reads slowly, haltingly, stumbling over pronunciations, getting the emphasis all wrong.

It's hard for an outsider to tell until something goes wrong, but high-priority topics like Iran's nuclear program and China's development of cyberweapons seem to be getting the emphasis they deserve.

What remained wouldn't be getting the emphasis if the problems had been retained".

The party got the emphasis of that triple offer wrong, he says, and so its platform was unbalanced.

"I don't get the emphasis on primary care is so important, but primary care physicians aren't,' " she said, sitting across the room from the group.

The word "feel" gets the emphasis.

The fate of the vanguard gets the emphasis.

A. O. SCOTT I don't think I've ever had a full 180-degree reversal of opinion about a movie, but from time to time I've been conscious, in retrospect, of getting the nuance or emphasis wrong, of over- or under-rating a film or not expressing my sense of it as clearly as I should have.

But it is the glorious victory of the weak over the strong that gets the most emphasis in official accounts.

He goes on to say that in developing countries, economic responsibility continues to get the most emphasis, but philanthropy is given second highest priority followed by legal and then ethical responsibilities (Visser 2011).

The accented syllable is the one that gets the most emphasis or that you dwell on a bit longer.