1.   An emphasis seems to be placed on the beautiful-woman quotient.

2.   As campaigns wind down to their final days, the emphasis always seems to shift away from basic political issues and onto the Supreme Court.

3.   But now the emphasis seems to have shifted to violence.

4.   That emphasis seems unlikely to change.

5.   That emphasis on winning seems to have come from his genes and upbringing.

6.   The Dolphins offense appears to be lagging behind this group, but at least the emphasis seems sound.

7.   The emphasis this year seemed to be on bamboozling television rather than informing the press.

8.   The emphasis seems to work.

9.   Yet that moral emphasis seems doctrinaire and rigid as practiced by the most devout, who seem unwilling to adapt ancient precepts to modern circumstances.