lay emphasis on

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Critics of the new measure also say that it may be counter-productive to lay emphasis on learning more languages when the army should focus more on training, strategy and tactics to actually contain these problems.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2017

Critics of the new measure also say that it may be counter-productive to lay emphasis on learning more languages when the army should focus more on training, strategy and tactics to actually contain these problems.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2017

The Denver poll promises to lay emphasis on research on polling methods, a thing which is the urgent concern of all reliable pollsters.

From Time Magazine Archive

The purpose of going there, as I understand it, would be to lay emphasis on the subject of nuts for food.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. by Northern Nut Growers Association

Similarly the observer will in his description lay emphasis on the central point and will select details that bear a helpful relation to it.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.