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
It is true that these men turned to scientific investigation, but in so doing they escaped from the high altitudes in which Plato thought, and tended to lay emphasis on the mundane side of philosophy.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
