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edit- 1960: Lingua, volume 9, “A Tentative Typology of Romance Historical Grammars”, page 376 (North-Holland Publishing Co.)
- In dramatic contrast, then, to Diez, Meyer-Lübke leads his reader to the specific consonant phoneme as the smallest unit, or one of the smallest, of his construct, and he sides with Baist rather than with Diez in his choice of mode rather than locus of articulation for any classificatory purpose, explicit or implied (§ 405), while periodization is deëmphasized throughout.
- 1963: Journal of the American Institute of Planners, volume 28, page 15 (self-published)
- Transportation planning, rather deëmphasized by the garden-city enthusiasts, has become increasingly stressed.
- 1992: Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia, volumes 18–20, page 3 (J. Cramer)
- Lang, on the other hand, took a more moderate position, pointing out a number of similarities between the gametophytes which other workers had failed to report or had deëmphasized.
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edit- 1960: [author unknown], Proceedings, page 284 (Edition du Comite Hellenque d’Organisation)
- Our thesis holds that these archaic impulses persist in the psychic dynamics of modern man and unconsciously urge him into the life-renewing act. To the prelogical, mythic mind this ritual confers integrity and prevents estrangement by deëmphasizing the ego level of the psyche.
- 1960: Lingua, volume 9, “A Tentative Typology of Romance Historical Grammars”, page 352 (North-Holland Publishing Co.)
- This streamlining offers certain advantages; it also involves the drawback of deëmphasizing the – to the structuralist – all-important interplay between internal sound development, geared to trends of inner economy, and the enrichment of a phonic stock as a result of external pressure (ethnolinguistic contacts through peaceful diffusion or conquests).
- 1962: High Fidelity, volume 12, issue 4, page 53 (Audiocom)
- It is beyond the scope of our evaluation program to prove or disprove this theory, but this much seems certain: the Grado’s audible response is among the smoothest we have heard, and it seems particularly good at deëmphasizing record surface noise which shows up as short tone bursts that can become exaggerated with a cartridge whose high-end response is peaked or which lacks good transient ability.
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edit- 1956, Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff, editor, The Excavations at Dura-Europos[1], volume 8, Yale University Press, "deémphasize" page 229:
- Precisely why the vault was not made to span the entire field is not evident, but the effect of the shortened span is to deëmphasize the narrative elements of the scene that come to expression through the bush, and to accentuate the importance of Moses as a person by setting him into a niche-like field.
- 1959, Annals of Internal Medicine[2], volume 51, "deémphasize" page 111:
- In recent years there has been a tendency among certain medical educators to deëmphasize the importance of physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics, but in the last year their importance has been reëmphasized.
- 1961: High Fidelity, volume 11, issues 1–6, page 67 (Audiocom)
- This procedure tends to deëmphasize the strings; the violins, in particular, lack presence.
- 1964: George Frost Kennan and the Council on Foreign Relations, On Dealing with the Communist World, pages 43–44 (Harper & Row)
- Finally, while they cannot leave the Communist military alliance, the satellite régimes could, conceivably, if conditions were right, help to deëmphasize the military factor to a point where it would not stand in the way of at least a partial political rapproachement with some of their Western neighbors.
- 1966: Robert C. Dale, Studies in French Literature, volume 14, “The Poetics of Prosper Mérimée”, page 98 (Mouton)
- We have already mentioned Mérimée’s strong rejection of detail for detail’s sake; the above suggestion is an attempt to help Turgenev purge himself of that temptation through the adoption of an alternate prose form, one that would deëmphasize the need for detail that was so strong in the shorter genre preferred by both writers.
- 1967: Lutheran Forum, volume 1, page 16 (American Lutheran Publicity Bureau)
- […] tended to assert the military claim and to deëmphasize the religious claim.
- 1968, Confrontation[3], numbers 1–5, Long Island University, page 69:
- More definitively, mixed-means events are durationally limited performances that deëmphasize, if not completely eschew, the language of sentences in favor of communicating within and between such means as sound and movement, light and odor, sculpture and painting, isolated words and chosen setting, often in addition to new technologies of film, recorded tape, amplification systems, radio, closed-circuit television and even computers.
- 1972: Revue Militaire Générale, issue 2, page 184 (Berger-Levrault)
- That the ultimate aim should be to deëmphasize military confrontation as much as possible is already virtually beyond controversy.
- 1972, Yakov Malkiel, “Distinctive Traits of Romance Linguistics”, in James Maxwell Anderson, Jo Ann Creore, editors, Readings in Romance Linguistics[4], The Hague: Mouton, page 25:
- This rational arrangement presupposes, on the worker’s part, the ability to denude each situation of its frills, reducing it to an algebraic formula, and a concurrent willingness to deëmphasize, without ruling them out entirely, the ingredients of intuition and of chance that have undeniably presided over some etymological discoveries.
- 1974: Yakov Malkiel [ed.], Romance Philology, volume 27, page 615 (University of California Press)
- Another factor in greater or less success in foreign-language learning after childhood seems to be intelligence (162, 186, 210); W. does not explicitly deal with the question of why it must be a factor. Unlike W. (180), however, I am not ready to dismiss the possible existence of greater and less talent in the use of the mother tongue. The innatist hypothesis leads many of us to deëmphasize such differences.
- 1992, Workforce[5], Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies, page 32:
- The department’s response has been to deëmphasize cost measures as an incentive and to focus on improving postprogram performance measures of long-term employability, job retention and earnings for adults, and skill enhancements for youth.
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edit- 1961: Yakov Malkiel [ed.], Romance Philology, volume 15, page 143 (University of California Press)
- Although M., unlike Sapir, deëmphasizes exoticism and again waives the privilege of charts and diagrams, he displays a virtuoso’s light touch in using plain words to describe complex situations […]