verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
emphasize/stress the importance of sth
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I'd like to emphasize the importance of reading exam questions carefully.
stress/emphasize/underline the need for sth (= say how important it is )
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He stressed the need for better training courses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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Stone also emphasizes the extent to which women accepted the double moral standard.
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But it also emphasizes de-escalation of violence and a positive spirituality.
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Gilligan's work also emphasizes psychology's uneasy relationship with male-identified science.
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Mary Kadlec, who bought Video City in April, also emphasized customer service.
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The report also emphasized the need for adequate training and supervision of personnel working in this area.
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He also emphasizes that men considering taking the drug first discuss it with their partner.
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Their recollections also emphasize his aloofness, shyness, sudden love of fun, and self-contained nature.
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This emphasizes also his primitive appeal to fire as the most destructive force.
further
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In some churches the importance of the Laudian altar was further emphasized by the addition of an elaborate new reredos.
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Pelmets and valances can further emphasize a particular style, as well as hiding any unsightly tracks.
how
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Shakespeare emphasizes how strongly the plebeians are in favour of Brutus when Antony begins to speak.
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This story emphasizes how important it is to be wary of strangers.
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Another line of argument emphasizes how women are rendered invisible in these statistics.
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Centex salespeople are taught to emphasize how easy the system is to operate.
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The worst of it was that Charlotte had intended to emphasize how she had come in search of information, not confrontation.
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She wanted to emphasize how this was especially true in the case of race.
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It is the therapist's task to emphasize how capable the parent has become and encourage them to continue.
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He emphasizes how variegated were the personalities of these poets, and the literary styles which they practised.
■ NOUN
approach
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In the introduction to the Macrotext chapter of the Hypertext book, word-based and indexing language approaches are emphasized .
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Reinforcement theories, a third approach , emphasize the way in which behavior is learned.
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Both approaches , too, emphasize the importance of teacher assessment.
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Modern functionalist approaches continue to emphasize that state intervention is best explained by an impersonal logic of the development of advanced capitalism.
aspect
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Instead try to emphasize the positive aspects of your age.
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I have emphasized these aspects in order to help people protect themselves.
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The idea is to emphasize the positive aspects of your present, non-diet, way of eating.
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A related classification of political systems also emphasizes aspects of the relationship between the rulers and the ruled.
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Huxley as a popularizer of Darwin and as a teacher of biology emphasized rather different aspects of science.
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Other models seek to emphasize the computational aspects of memory, thought, and cognitive processes.
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I have been at pains to emphasize the positive aspects of discipline.
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No taxonomy is used in all political analyses, because each taxonomy emphasizes different aspects of the political world.
campaign
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Glassheim's campaign theme emphasized change and he frequently criticized Owens.
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Alexander often cites the company, Child Care Inc., in his campaign speeches to emphasize his entrepreneurial skills.
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The campaigns used to emphasize face-to-face campaigning in early caucus and primary states, they say.
development
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This attitude changed by the 1950s and was emphasized by the development of cybernetics, information theory and operations research.
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A nurturing environment where people emphasize growth and development .
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As we mentioned in Chapter 3, the new Age of Psychology promotes and emphasizes the development and self-fulfilment of the individual.
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The managers also felt skill should have been emphasized more than development of knowledge.
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The fact that this was the only major correlation emphasizes that creative development is by no means easy and is always expensive.
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To present it in this way is to emphasize social policy developments .
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The central government started soft-pedaling coercion, emphasizing education and economic development .
difference
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Norm-referencing emphasizes relative differences between pupils while criterion-referencing stresses absolute descriptions of what pupils have achieved.
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However, the number of organizations this produces is unmanageable, and it also tends to emphasize differences rather than similarities.
fact
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We may know that authors work within determinate social and cultural conditions, but we still emphasize the fact of individual production.
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Handy emphasized that fact in his advertising.
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But this sculpture remains an isolated example, emphasizing the fact that in its earliest stage Cubism was primarily a pictorial revolution.
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What is being emphasized here is the fact that the two terms should not cause the proposal author confusion.
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Where positivists emphasize facts and cause-and-effect relationships, interactionists emphasize insight and understanding.
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The gift emphasized the fact that the giver was a public man.
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The non-party element is emphasized by the fact that not all the chairmen are government supporters.
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The old, familiar order remains in force, and the other parallels in chapter 26 only serve to emphasize the fact .
importance
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This is just one example of the many that could be quoted to emphasize the importance of shape in biological systems.
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Here, I want to emphasize the importance of daily connection to your kids.
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A psychiatrist emphasized the importance of preparing for the emotion of loss and recognizing it when it comes.
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P., who emphasized the importance of the berakah in connection with his studies on the Didache.
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Dawson emphasized the importance of combining agricultural and urban for building a strong society.
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The van der Luydens had done their best to emphasize the importance of the occasion.
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Both approaches, too, emphasize the importance of teacher assessment.
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The initial political socialization research emphasized the overwhelming importance of early socialization, from the family and from early educational experiences.
nature
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The terms near and far are used to emphasize the direction-independent nature of the Rule.
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This emphasizes the symbolic nature of these jewels.
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Monism thus generated a respect for life as a whole and helped to emphasize the unity of Nature .
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In other words, Melville is again emphasizing the duality of nature .
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Ghozali, anxious to emphasize the non-party nature of his transitional government, did not attend.
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This emphasizes the intentional nature of the curriculum, and the various forms and settings it can have.
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She emphasizes again their non-associative nature and puts forward three possibilities.
need
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The report also emphasized the need for adequate training and supervision of personnel working in this area.
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They emphasize the need for the abuser to know his feelings, identify his inner frustrations and redirect his responses.
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Services have thus frequently emphasized the need for custody, punishment and control rather than for rehabilitation and reintegration.
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Intransigence and personal suffering highlighted the principle at stake and emphasized the need of fighting for it.
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Such statutes however constitute a complicating factor and emphasize the need for long-term solutions through international understanding.
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To redress the imbalance between the photograph and the original he emphasizes the need for more original art in more public places.
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He emphasizes the need for proper training for people in both new types of job.
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The following chapter emphasizes the need for man to be ever in communication even through the squeeze of a hand.
point
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I need not here emphasize the point that nobody can expect Polybius to study the dynamics of Roman imperialism.
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Maybe he slams the fork on the counter, to emphasize his point .
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Popper emphasizes the point with a striking metaphor.
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You can then begin to emphasize your strong points and do something to counteract negative ones.
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I shall talk about a breakaway fragment in order to emphasize my point .
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Nevertheless, the story did have a happy ending and it does emphasize an important point .
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It may be used to emphasize your key points .
relationship
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Advances in molecular biology in recent years have served to emphasize the possible relationships between homoeopathy, immunology and genetics.
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A related classification of political systems also emphasizes aspects of the relationship between the rulers and the ruled.
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Gilligan's work also emphasizes psychology's uneasy relationship with male-identified science.
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Where positivists emphasize facts and cause-and-effect relationships , interactionists emphasize insight and understanding.
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Though the literature on organizational politics has emphasized one-on-one relationship building, my research moves the emphasis to the coalition.
role
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The second explanation, by contrast, emphasizes the role of the environment.
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Roman Catholics, however, emphasizing the role of free will, believe that humans can cooperate in their salvation through actions.
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The main purpose of this practice is to emphasize the budget's role in the cycle of planning-control-accountability.
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The draft proposals tend to emphasize advisory structures and roles .
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Legislation in the field of child protection has emphasized the role of the local authorities.
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Qaddafi's account omits all mention of authority, just as Zuwaya do; and neither emphasizes the role of women.
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The present government's urban policies have emphasized the role of market forces as opposed to any sort of systematic planning.
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This emphasizes the role and necessity of the assumption of a strict plane symmetry.
value
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Conflict perspectives Although functionalists emphasize the importance of value consensus in society, they do recognize that conflict can occur.
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Bush courted Catholics by emphasizing abortion and family values in 1992, but lost it to Clinton.
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But Microsoft insists that list prices will remain high to emphasize the value of their products.
word
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I would emphasize the word partial.
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She says it again, slowly, emphasizing each word .
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He emphasizes that words do not depend on reality for their meaning.
■ VERB
serve
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Advances in molecular biology in recent years have served to emphasize the possible relationships between homoeopathy, immunology and genetics.
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However, the manner of her reincarnation only serves to emphasize that she is irrevocably gone.
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Unlike Woodchester, however, such geometric decoration as exists does not serve to emphasize the autonomy of the circular arrangement.
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But the outcome only serves to emphasize the sadistic element in the popular doctrine of the crusade.
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This serves to emphasize the importance of a good early assessment to decide on the client's suitability for group treatment.
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The old, familiar order remains in force, and the other parallels in chapter 26 only serve to emphasize the fact.
tend
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Such explanations tend to emphasize the possession of knowledge for its own sake.
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Point-factor systems tend to emphasize paying people for the positions they occupy rather than the skills they possess or their performance.
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Today, however, the value of care within the normal community wherever possible tends to be emphasized .
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However, the number of organizations this produces is unmanageable, and it also tends to emphasize differences rather than similarities.
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The draft proposals tend to emphasize advisory structures and roles.
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In product-costing Kaplan tends to emphasize cost-drivers in terms of outputs from activities, e.g. number of set-ups.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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My teacher always emphasized the importance of studying hard.
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She emphasized the "Ms." when she introduced herself.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But in this case, they emphasize , short term may mean just a few months.
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However it should be emphasized that nominal responsibility is not necessarily indicative of time devoted to training.
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Intransigence and personal suffering highlighted the principle at stake and emphasized the need of fighting for it.
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No one technique works for everyone, he emphasizes.
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Other well-known writers emphasize not the failures of servants, but the tyranny of masters.
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This aspect was emphasized by the title of his paper on Penicillium.
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What is being emphasized here is the fact that the two terms should not cause the proposal author confusion.
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When applying for a job, make sure you emphasize the interests and leisure activities that an employer would find relevant.