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 2009

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... 2009

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

Greek bailout Q&A 2012

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

India's Future In Afghanistan 2011

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

She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review 2012

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.

Azari & III: Azari & III – review 2011

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.

University applications rise as candidates race to avoid higher fees 2011

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

INTERVIEW: Michael Hanlon, Author of Eternity, Our Next Billion Years 2009

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.

A Man of Parts by David Lodge – review 2011

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

Transplant patients given kidneys from donor with cancer 2011