emphasise

• “One would imagine the emphasise is so that people don’t waste effort encouraging non-UK contacts to sign it when they would either not sign it when that requirement was highlighted, or if they did sign it simply get discounted by Downing Street who, other intents aside, do seem to wish for these e-petitions to be generally ‘valid’.”

  Petition to defer any bill on prostitution until after the next general election

• “Although I have the quotation marks in the right place to allow me to claim strict accuracy, I accept, for what it is worth, that I should have used "emphasise" and not "affirm".”

  John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...

• “The benefit of this hybrid form for the writer is that it frees up the texture of the book, avoiding the build-up of clogging documentation, and allows him to hurry over or emphasise themes at will.”

  The Guardian: A Man of Parts by David Lodge – review

• “Prehaps if unemployment continues to grow, which i beleive it will, with these public sector cuts and the increasing emphasise on profit that companies have checkout machines, reducing/combining job posts etc. then we could very well have a revolution.”

  The Guardian: University applications rise as candidates race to avoid higher fees

• “We emphasise on the continuation of co-operation with neighbours and other countries in the region.”

  Forbes: India's Future In Afghanistan

• “Many Asian traditions emphasise cyclicity, rather than linear temporal change, for example.”

  INTERVIEW: Michael Hanlon, Author of Eternity, Our Next Billion Years

• “We understand that this has been a very upsetting experience for them but we would like to emphasise that such cases are very rare.”

  The Guardian: Transplant patients given kidneys from donor with cancer

• “A crisp edit would usefully emphasise their greatest asset, namely Cedric Gasaida's honeyed falsetto vocals: they're enticingly seductive on Into the Night, while Reckless With Your Love gives the delicious impression that he spent some fruitful time in his youth pretending to be Grace Jones.”

  The Guardian: Azari & III: Azari & III – review

• “There is some pressure from the IMF to ease up on calls for spending cuts and to emphasise more long-term structural reforms.”

  The Guardian: Greek bailout Q&A

• “His skill is to emphasise the play's class politics by turning the servants into a chorus, a bubbling undercurrent.”

  The Guardian: She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review

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