6 sentences with 'emphasis'
Example sentences and phrases with the word emphasis and other words derived from it.
• « From about 600 BCE to 450 BCE, the Spartans were unique in the ancient world in placing total emphasis on a super-elite, and very small, citizenry of warriors. »
• « Both that unity and the emphasis on the peaceful resolution of conflicts within the Roman state itself began to crumble after the sack of Carthage. »
• « However, despite the bewildering diversity of beliefs among the early Christians, there were common themes, not least the emphasis that Jesus himself had placed on the spiritual needs of ordinary people, even the socially marginalised. »
• « Perhaps the most important phenomenon within the Abbasid caliphate was the great emphasis and respect the caliphs placed on learning. »
• « The first decades of the Counter-Reformation thus saw an "opening" of the Church to its followers and a greater emphasis on the Church's duties to the laity. »
• « Russian nobles themselves tended to be uneducated and uncouth compared to their Western counterparts, and the Russian Orthodox Church had little emphasis on the learning that now played such an important role in both the Catholic and Protestant churches in the West. »