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

I do not even lay emphasis on the necessity of naming the two types “male” and “female.”

From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Bostwick, Arthur E.

I lay emphasis on this, because my reviewers sometimes tell me I am cynical. 

From Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)