Sentence examples for was being overemphasized from inspiring English sources

But it has become clear to us over time that testing was being overemphasized — and misused — in schools that were substituting test preparation for instruction.

I suspect that if the show struck a greater balance between pure dance and cogent storytelling — or managed to weave the two together a bit more consistently — my sense that the exotic was being overemphasized (even fetishized) would evaporate.

Regarding news media coverage of the harm caused by repeated concussions in football players, Lyketsos said: "There is a concern that I have that the possibility of serious long-term consequences are being overemphasized without clear evidence.

Stone: I think measurement is important, but it's been overemphasized in the last couple of decades of philanthropy.

How abrupt, how tragic it has been for many people cannot be overemphasized.

I think sports are overemphasized, but it's hard to change.

"The significance of what is happening cannot be overemphasized," said Adnan Rehmat, the Pakistan director for Internews, an international nonprofit organization that supports open media.

But today, as word of the boy's death spread among those who administer M.R.I. exams, the cautious consensus was that safety can never be overemphasized.

There were some things that were touched on and they were emphasized, but they could have been overemphasized.

As always, one month's figures shouldn't be overemphasized: the payroll number is a volatile data series with a large standard error.

Peter Schjeldahl writes that the "disaster has been largely occluded for us by the still worse events that were to come, but it cannot be overemphasized as a spur to the cultural and political developments of the next two decades".