Verb (used with object), : to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.    From Dictionary.com. 

In this case, even the title emphasised Bono's boys as victims rather than culprits: "U2 brand green criticism 'unfair'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-15] Reference

Announcing the change, Speaker Michael Martin emphasised how difficult an MPs job was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

I doubt the drafters of the document would have "emphasised" the preamble if they had not thought it worthy to be "affirmed".    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

So far Haeckel merely emphasised what Darwin had already said in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

This was emphasised by some of the best caricatures he ever produced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

The point was emphasised by the colonel, who wrote to all batteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

"Everybody emphasised the social function of a football club," says Brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [How can football clubs capture the social value of the beautiful game?] Reference

The value of his soul in this sense is repeatedly emphasised in scripture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

We hope we have already sufficiently emphasised the falsity of such a view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference

This is further emphasised by the circle of dots above the letter "C" in the centre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference

It also emphasised how Coulson, as the bridge between both worlds, is particularly vulnerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Cameron and Andy Coulson: the PM, the PR guru and a scandalous lapse of judgment] Reference

His waistcoat was undone and the white of his shirt emphasised the enormous girth of his corporation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

Punjaub is indicated, and this is further emphasised by the sign-post which points towards these symbols.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference

It cannot be emphasised too strongly that Time above all other considerations decides what we shall read.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

Experience has furthermore emphasised the necessity of reducing the number of types to the absolute minimum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

The Lib Dem treasury spokesman, Lord Oakeshott, emphasised the role of the banks in supporting business investment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystery of Britain's missing exports] Reference

I smile too, whenever, as so often happens, the necessity of offering such pleas is emphasised by a discreet silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

Throughout the South African War the activities of De Wet emphasised the vulnerability of the Lines of Communications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference

In this hurrying age, it is surely high praise to have one's "wise passiveness" (as Wordsworth called it) so emphasised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

Second, the whole range of education opportunities available to school-leavers should be emphasised, not just university.    From Wordnik.com.  [We must not let the recession kill our faith in education] Reference

At a Nottingham meeting of the Society of Chemical Industry the unscientific character of British methods was again emphasised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference

That this may come about through a friend, or lover, is shown by the cigar, and is further emphasised by the large dots beside it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference

The “entire freedom” allowed to English in Frankfort until the reprisal order was made out is a fact that should be emphasised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference

With some stitches the edge of the material can be rolled over a piping cord and the stitch worked over the thus emphasised margin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

The change cannot be better emphasised than by a quotation from another writer, who described the same scene several centuries since.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

Downing Street emphasised the desire of the government to work with the unions, and denied it had any plans to amend trade union laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unions threaten mass strikes over spending cuts] Reference

Yet aristocrats emphasised their superiority by never letting slip the chance to announce that their virtue and superiority was genetic.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Aristocrats'] Reference

The limitations of the Zeppelin, and in fact of all dirigible aircraft, were emphasised upon the occasion of the British aerial raid upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

Policy shifts in recent years emphasised midwives and community children's centres, while removing GPs 'pay incentives for maternity care.    From Wordnik.com.  [GPs should have bigger role in antenatal care, says think tank] Reference

Similarly, it is anticipated that girls will be more emotional and talkative, and so their verbal skills are emphasised by teachers and parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Male and female ability differences down to socialisation, not genetics] Reference

Filched must be emphasised, for therein lay the ulterior reason for transformation from "fed-upity" to a genial anticipation of forthcoming trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference

So far the stern test of war as applied to the science of aeronautics has emphasised the fact that as a naval unit the dirigible is a complete failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

The difficulty of hitting a captive balloon has been graphically emphasised, inasmuch as the German artillerists have failed to bring down a solitary balloon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

But it just emphasised the point that Rumer has nothing to sell but her voice, a warm, golden instrument that feels like an anachronism in the age of Auto-Tune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rumer] Reference

Fritz trenches, wire, observation posts, lines of support and communication; the rise and fall of the ground; villages; were all emphasised upon until Tommy became to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference