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  • So is public policy making, centralizing government in the hands of a few, securing the right to formulate ideas in the hands of authoritarian elitists, legal deemphasis of constitutional considerations in favor of case law and activism and quite a bit more.

    Channeling Religious Impulses 2010

  • But the standard do generally come down on the “traditionalist” side of the long battle over math reform with an emphasis on hard-core math and fundamental skills and a deemphasis of data collection and modeling.

    The Common Core and the Tech Industry « Steve Wildstrom on Tech 2010

  • So is public policy making, centralizing government in the hands of a few, securing the right to formulate ideas in the hands of authoritarian elitists, legal deemphasis of constitutional considerations in favor of case law and activism and quite a bit more.

    Channeling Religious Impulses 2010

  • The US social contract is shrinking due to the deemphasis of checks and balances and globalist influencers inside government.

    Brazil Seeks New Balance in US Relations 2010

  • The US social contract is shrinking due to the deemphasis of checks and balances and globalist influencers inside government.

    Eric Ehrmann: Brazil Seeks New Balance in US Relations 2010

  • There are very few openings given the deemphasis on backups under the salary cap, and the fact the Red Wings won the Cup with an $800,000 netminder isn't going to do wonders for the market.

    Archive 2008-06-01 James Mirtle 2008

  • Still, I wonder whether, given the deemphasis on teaching, whether various reputational indexes or citation counts may fool students.

    Balkinization 2006

  • The dynamics which have led to this are the same ones which led to deemphasis on manned missions of extra orbital exploration earlier.

    De Bilt Adjustments « Climate Audit 2007

  • This deemphasis of all elements except the singers and the orchestra reflects, I suppose, what stage managers and performers want to do, and what opera goers will pay for.

    Music 2005

  • When his posthumous protectors chiefly Clara and Paine resumed the work that had ultimately defeated Mary Fairbanks, Livy, Susy, and others during his lifetime—the work of de-Vandalizing him, propping him up in the perfumed costume of a polite National Uncle—his social justice essays suffered the same fate as did his more extreme screeds against religion and mankind: deemphasis, obfuscation, and outright suppression.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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