Synonym: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress, underline, underscore. Similar words: emphasis, size up, phase, elephant, temple, employ, empire, preempt. Meaning: ['emfəsaɪz] v. 1. to stress, single out as important 2. give extra weight to (a communication).
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31. The system is intended to emphasize preventive health care and reduce costs.
32. Nevertheless, the story did have a happy ending and it does emphasize an important point.
33. Such statutes however constitute a complicating factor and emphasize the need for long-term solutions through international understanding.
34. In product-costing Kaplan tends to emphasize cost-drivers in terms of outputs from activities, e.g. number of set-ups.
35. Others may decry competitions for their tendency to emphasize technique over artistry, conformity over originality.
36. Point-factor systems tend to emphasize paying people for the positions they occupy rather than the skills they possess or their performance.
37. The campaigns used to emphasize face-to-face campaigning in early caucus and primary states, they say.
38. This is a point which -- at the risk of being boring -- I must emphasize once again.
39. To what extent its reproductive strategies emphasize such altruism depends on the pay-off of such strategies in terms of inclusive fitness.
40. Some analysts emphasize rising productivity and rising wages in the market economy that have made work outside the home increasingly profitable.
41. We may emphasize that they are mingled with and followed by stories of a very different character.
42. Maybe he slams the fork on the counter, to emphasize his point.
43. The demands for higher test scores seem to emphasize speed and coverage, not depth of understanding or commitment.
44. The van der Luydens had done their best to emphasize the importance of the occasion.
45. They emphasize the need for the abuser to know his feelings, identify his inner frustrations and redirect his responses.
46. The tendency has been to emphasize the sheer numbers and availability of more workers, the reserve army of labor.
47. The worst of it was that Charlotte had intended to emphasize how she had come in search of information, not confrontation.
48. Strict conventionalism fails as an interpretation of our legal practice even when especially when - we emphasize its negative part.
49. I cannot emphasize too strongly the magnitude of this problem.
50. I emphasize the tense because Congress has the habit of letting itself off the hook when convenient.
51. Emphasize that it does not matter how badly one reads the paragraph as long as the situation is not avoided.
52. Pick out any interesting mouldings, dado rails or picture rails in different colours to emphasize these features.
53. Unlike Woodchester, however, such geometric decoration as exists does not serve to emphasize the autonomy of the circular arrangement.
54. Some firms prefer candidates with business backgrounds because business courses emphasize quantitative analytical skills.
55. Your facial expressions can help to emphasize parts of your speech too: try smiling, scowling, or raising your eyebrows.
56. To present it in this way is to emphasize social policy developments.
57. Work Ethics Schools need to emphasize and demand basic work ethics and good citizenship from students.
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58. Instead try to emphasize the positive aspects of your age.
59. Particularly in the Northeast, many emphasize measures to protect the environment.
60. I emphasize this to make clear that what happened the following weekend was as unforeseeable as a plane falling on your house.