excessive emphasis

collocation in English

meaningsofexcessiveandemphasis

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excessive
adjective
uk
/ekˈses.ɪv/us
/ekˈses.ɪv/
too ...
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emphasis
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈem.fə.sɪs/us
/ˈem.fə.sɪs/
the particular importance or attention that is given ...
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(Definition ofexcessiveandemphasisfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There isexcessiveemphasison terms reflecting the original psychoanalytical orientation in the 1940s and 1950s.
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This nurtured in him anexcessiveemphasison commercial competence.
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For example, anexcessiveemphasison international structures may preclude serious attention to the internal politics of nation states.
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My initial dissatisfaction with the answers that have been suggested until now is with the fact that they have tended to putexcessiveemphasison environmental and agricultural constraints.
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Displaced and lost, individuals respond to the threat by anexcessiveemphasison group loyalty, and experience a corroding humiliation.
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Theexcessiveemphasison activation from the brain stem in earlier versions of the activation-synthesis hypothesis neglected the role of the higher centers for example, the cortex, in dream formation.
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In particular, there is still in this work anexcessiveemphasison the traditional view of the year 1898 as the dividing line between stability and crisis.
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For a start, the approaches we are currently taking are characterised by anexcessiveemphasison the precautionary principle.
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There isexcessiveemphasison sectarian interests and there is a general feeling, which we may as well recognise, of the inevitability of decline.
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Sometimes we hear that there is anexcessiveemphasison rights as opposed to responsibilities.
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All theexcessiveemphasisupon identity or equality of status is really likely to land us in more harm than good.
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Too many people in the regions placeexcessiveemphasison automatic subsidies to capital investment as an instrument of regional policy.
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The first is the almostexcessiveemphasishe places on religion.
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At present, it appears to me thatexcessiveemphasisis given to shareholders' interests on these occasions.
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We must understand what we are talking about becauseexcessiveemphasishas been placed on landfill.
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In the end, our group abstained in the vote on this resolution due to theexcessiveemphasisplaced on burning coal.
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Such a philosophy leads to anexcessiveemphasison research leading to immediate short-term marketability.
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By putting this in, it putsexcessiveemphasison that point.
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There isexcessiveemphasison appointment within the family practitioner committees, in that 11 will be appointed by the area health authority and the rest will also be appointed.
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The contribution that they can and do make, sometimes with great andexcessiveemphasis, concerns the anti-aviation approach of nearby residents—complaints about noise and so on.
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