Sentence examples for serious emphasis from inspiring English sources

With this episode, the JPMorgan board has placed a serious emphasis on the critical connection between information reporting and governance oversight.

Trattoria Stella, both restaurant and bar, puts a serious emphasis on local products; among the wine selections were several local reds, one from Brys Estate, another from Bowers Harbor and one from Villa Mari, a producer on the Old Mission Peninsula north of town that I had not come across before.

And it's quite possible that this rather serious emphasis, all those years ago, alerted the casting director that this 9-year-old girl should play Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, rather than the umpteen thousand others who were gagging, swooning, dying to do so.

Indeed, the dearly departed Kim Jong-il had already placed serious emphasis on 2012, trumpeting it as the year when the regime's "plan for achieving prosperity will bear a brilliant fruit, and the year of a grand march, when a new century of Kim Il-sung's Korea begins".

"If you go back to the fact that the buildings stood and took it -- one for 56 minutes, the other for an hour and 40 minutes -- there is going to be a serious emphasis on exiting," said William F. Baker of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Otherwise, Kansas City was just like Phoenix -- some promising talent with a serious emphasis on the good auditions.

So although the broadly-targeted nature of Australian CVE during the Rudd-Gillard era had serious shortcomings, the emphasis on working closely and consultatively with communities was appropriate.

I am tired of the hyperbole, the sensationalism, the generalisation of specifics, the compulsory immediacy of response, the character assassination, the trivialisation of serious issues, the emphasis on the negative and the propensity to give undue publicity to minority views.

Smashed guitars notwithstanding, this isn't a book with a rock 'n' roll heart; it's a serious memoir with equal emphasis on ambition and emotion.

RYOT has made a series of virtual-reality documentaries in far-flung places, with an emphasis on serious issues: riots, refugees, earthquake relief and other topics.

Carol Stoel, director of Schools Around the World, which links teachers in different nations to improve teacher and student performance, called for "greater emphasis on serious work at the middle-school level".