Sentence examples for official emphasis from inspiring English sources

The official emphasis, therefore, is on the value of the learning process in rehearsal rather than on performance.

An expert on Tibet and Xinjiang, Mr. Wang believes the official emphasis on nationalism is veering into something more disturbing — a kind of racism, as the majority Han people who dominate government struggle to control the two restive autonomous regions, he said in an interview via Skype in Beijing.

Moderate Muslims say that officials' emphasis on extremist groups and terrorism helps contribute to a climate of fear that can lead to violence, like the killings last summer by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway.

"U.S. statutory sanctions on Iran focused solely on terrorism or on human rights would not be affected by any final deal on Iran's nuclear program," the State Department official said (emphasis added).

For Chongqing officials, the emphasis was on urbanization.

But one American church official said the emphasis of the new policy shows, "They still don't get it".

In Rome on Monday, where the vice president was meeting with Italian officials, a senior administration official said, "The emphasis that the United States wants to make going forward is to make certain that we've got everybody knitted up together in terms of developing a common policy that we can all support".

In Munich, Mrs. Clinton and other Western officials put their emphasis on the "orderly" part of an "orderly transition" in Egypt.

Bank officials said the emphasis would be on holding down costs in the business after a year of rebuilding in 2009.

It put too much emphasis, officials said, on packages, when they also wanted riders to watch for people trying to sneak into employee areas or to hide something.

Perhaps wary that its own deficit might one day bring an adverse market reaction, French officials put less emphasis on the need for harsh medicine in Greece and prefer to blame speculators for the turmoil, Mr. Jabko said.