Sentence examples for in an attempt to emphasize from inspiring English sources
This reminds me of what Robert Maynard Hutchins as the president of the University of Chicago did in 1939, when he eliminated varsity football from the university in an attempt to emphasize academics over athletics, calling football an "infernal nuisance" in an institution of higher learning.
The new test was developed in an attempt to emphasize oral communicative skills.
Hutchins eliminated varsity football from the university in an attempt to emphasize academics over athletics, instituted the undergraduate college's liberal-arts curriculum known as the Common Core, and organized the university's graduate work into its current four divisions.
In an attempt to emphasize the role of normal personality characteristics rather than psychopathology, the "distressed (type D) personality" was constructed of two specific, nonpathological traits: NA (the tendency to experience negative emotions) and social inhibition (SI; the tendency to inhibit the expression of these emotions in social interaction).
"Amsterdam," he said, was transitional and represented an attempt to emphasize character more.
This paper is also an attempt to emphasize the importance of population structure and history to explain the TE chromosomal distribution.
On September 28, in a highly publicized attempt to emphasize Israeli sovereignty, government opposition leader Ariel Sharon accompanied by a large police contingent paid a visit to the site, sparking widespread rioting in the Palestinian-controlled areas and among Israeli Arabs in Israel.
However, this paper is a first attempt to emphasize mathematical peculiarities of the Regularisation approach in space plasma observations in a general manner in order to provide a useful and versatile schema for the wide range of space plasma problems.
When the referee ordered them to resume the match, Ortiz attempted to hug Mayweather again, in an effort to emphasize his sincerity.
Part of PBS's attempt to emphasize American material, the film comes with a suspicious aura of tokenism or political correctness, but "Skinwalkers" stands on its own as a sophisticated murder mystery, embedded in a culture rarely seen on screen.
The wording in the original manuscript was unnecessarily rigid, in an attempt to strongly emphasize the transition.
