Sentence examples for lay stress upon from inspiring English sources

Some Baptists lay stress upon having no human founder, no human authority, and no human creed.

Greig and Tiffany, however, lay great stress on the story's sexual quality.

The prime minister, David Cameron, lay great stress on gangs being behind the riots.

They lay less stress on the individual's inner strengths.

Future strategies ought to lay special stress on excessive body weight prevention.

Future strategies should lay special stress on the prevention and treatment of excessive weight.

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

Can it distinguish between stress associated with lying and stress associated with telling painful truths?

The word incubus is derived from the Latin incubus ("nightmare") and incubare ("to lie upon, weigh upon, brood").

I lay down upon her mattress, and she lay beside me.

He was warring upon the military, and this gave the military constitutional jurisdiction to lay hands upon him".