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In addition, the overemphasis on the local man and woman underlines another important axiom about Irish elections: they are in fact 43 separate byelections, often fought on localised issues.
Pointing to Mr Obama's no-show and the government shutdown, it concluded that his "much touted 'pivot' to Asia feels more like a pirouette with an overemphasis on military engagement".The Chinese press is happy to foster the impression of a power shift, taking the argument beyond South-East Asia.
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.
Meanwhile, one should retain, without overemphasis , the twin visions of cell death one in which death approaches the cell from the outside and the other in which death starts from within the living core of the cell itself.
The negative element, as formulated in the theology of the Areopagite, proved to be insufficient as a corrective to counter the overemphasis of reason, for reason seemed to imply the idea of necessity; Anselm's asserted "compelling grounds" for revealed truths, for example, were akin to such a necessitarianism.
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.
The Great Depression had devastating effects on sharecroppers, as did the South's continued overproduction and overemphasis on cotton production.
This is to be regretted, for it not only results in an overemphasis that destroys intellectual balance but it also has relegated to the background some of the more exciting aesthetic accomplishments of the Native American.
While the tendency to see in Napoleon a reincarnation of some 14th-century Italian condottiere is an overemphasis on one aspect of his character, he did, in fact, share neither the traditions nor the prejudices of his new country: remaining a Corsican in temperament, he was first and foremost, through both his education and his reading, a man of the 18th century.
In his revolutionary treatise, Lettres sur la danse et sur les ballets (1760), Jean-Georges Noverre brought about major reforms in ballet production, stressing the importance of dramatic motivation, which he called ballet d'action, and decrying overemphasis on technical virtuosity.
This coloured with occasional inaccuracy and overemphasis most of his historical writing, which includes Europe and the Faith (1920), History of England, 4 vol. (1925 31), and a series of biographies ranging in period from James II (1928) to Wolsey (1930).
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