Sentence examples for reducing the emphasis from inspiring English sources

It's time Australia started reducing the emphasis on criminal sanctions.

The most popular points for voters were reducing the emphasis on standardized testing, fighting for more funds and integrating arts into the school day.

In successive editions of The Origin of Species, he responded to criticisms by rowing back on his revolutionary idea, reducing the emphasis on natural selection and according more significance to other possible mechanisms of change.

She proposed reducing the emphasis on testing and taking a less punitive approach to struggling schools — two contentious features of Mr. Bloomberg's approach — while also suggesting that she would leave many his policies intact.

The Berkeley campus, and later U.C.L.A., also adopted an admissions approach called holistic review, reducing the emphasis on grades and test scores while taking a broader look at students' experiences and the challenges they have overcome.

"I don't say that there is any simple solution to this problem, but the vigilance that's been maintained since 2001 needs to be increased in these circumstances and it is certainly no time to be reducing the emphasis on good intelligence, which has been a very important part of Australia's response to the terror threat ever since then," he said.

Another key component of the systems approach is to reduce the emphasis on blame.

Otherwise, "such a change would greatly reduce the emphasis on science in I.P.C.C.," he said, referring to the climate panel.

Under Deng Xiaoping, who engineered China's economic transformation, the party tried to reduce the emphasis on personality.

The media regulator has already taken a talent show off air and asked channels to reduce the emphasis on entertainment.

The most controversial issue has been the move to reduce the emphasis given to ethnicity, culture, linguistic background and religion when matching a child to adopters.