How To Use Focus on In A Sentence

The Chief Inspector has suggested a complete overhaul of the good book, reducing it to a pacier 250 pages, a greater focus on “Floods and brimstone and other cool stuff” and a possible rewrite by Dan Brown to “Sex the whole thing up a bit.” Archive 2008-10-01
But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor. Labourhome
Follow-ups at regular intervals also focus on relapse prevention.
Following three young people with dwarfism, with the focus on normal everyday challenges. Times, Sunday Times
Each eye can move independently and can focus on object with three different areas, giving the mantis shrimp "trinocular vision". ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science

Throughout the exercise, focus on keeping your abs tight.
Established couples let old regrets go and focus on a brilliant future together. The Sun
The group rapidly bypassed disciplinary differences to focus on a common set of preferred aptitudes and abilities associated with critical thinking, reading, and writing.
Katy chose to focus on design, as in functional contemporary design rather than fine art and sculpture.
A focus on texts and their position in all kinds of Italian secular vocal music of the time leads to a rather wordy book not very easy to follow in its layout, especially when a music example precedes its reference.
It is much more exciting to focus on popular causes, such as climate change, equal rights, biogenetic engineering, or even alien life, anything but economics. Economics Trumps
One, they should circumscribe the role of the ombudsman, preferably to higher levels of government, and focus on increasing transparency. Getting a Grip on Indian Corruption
Thus, arguments for participatory democracy focus on the inactivity of the large majority of the people in the political arena today.
The budget should reflect policy priorities of social needs cluster departments as a re-affirmation of government's strategic focus on developing the poor and underdeveloped communities.
While the Kelly gang appears to have posed a genuine threat to the authority of the ruling colonials, the film prefers to focus on the adventures of the outlaws rather than an increasingly desperate establishment.
The second half of the chapter introduces electron diffraction with a focus on transmission electrons.
The cameras will focus only on the judge passing sentence. Times, Sunday Times
As part of its 30 For 30 series of 30 documentaries that begin airing in October, ESPN recently announced one film will focus on Steve Bartman. Favre on TV? Seems like a no-brainer but ...
To be successful, you need to keep an eye on what you want to achieve and not on what you already have. Just like while aiming, you focus on the target and not the tip of the arrow . Dr Roopleen
A focus on language, connotative and denotative meaning, is especially important in the cultural adaptation process.
Borders filed for Chapter 11 with plans to close about 30% of its stores and emerge with a new focus on e-books and nonbook products. What's News: Business
No matter what happens, Aube says Alchemy will continue to focus on the organizational infrastructure that makes a good cause not only well-run but financially viable. Steven Crandell: Annenberg's Alchemy
My usual approach to storytelling is to focus on several different characters or groups of characters that gradually come together in the course of the story. An interview with Terry Brooks about his new series that begins with Armageddon's Children
We focus on linguistic signals of discourse coherence, such as connectives (because, although) and referential expressions (anaphors, cataphors).
Cranmer does not intend to delve into the divisive arguments which confronted the Early Church on the nature of Christ's divinity and his humanity, but to focus on the controversy which has been caused by a statue of Jesus with an erect penis, which is on display at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Cranmer
The industry needs to focus on what attracts customers.
The focus on a complex process of negotiations appears to exclude the possibility of structural change.
When we focus only on delinquent students, we allow some of the real culprits in this cycle of school degeneration to escape unscathed.
Now, FBI agents' time is a much scarcer commodity because so many agents focus on counterterrorism.
The other experiments being developed in the hall focus on the possible energy values of antihydrogen atoms. Times, Sunday Times
The noise made it hard for me to focus on work.
Drawing on these experiences, Webb's novelettes focus on the leisure-time activities of upper-class society in London, Paris, and Cannes.
His remarks on French, focus on syntax and semantics, all but omitting phonology, phonetics and orthography.
People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end. Tony Robbins
On the circulation coin the springbok has been replaced with an image of planet earth with the focus on Africa, as well as the words "Johannesburg World Summit 2002" and the WSSD logo. ANC Daily News Briefing
She says that rather than counting calories, those wanting to lose weight should focus on eating healthy foods and cutting out processed products altogether. Times, Sunday Times
Continue to focus on excelling in school, but put in home and fam time too.
Relax your shoulders by taking a deep breath and then focus on letting your shoulders drop and loosen.
I focus on eight players because six running backs and two alternates are elected to the Pro Bowl each year so that seems to be a fair marker for a standard of excellence.
Tookey preferred to focus on performance on what he calls a "combined business basis" which he said showed the bank made a £1.7bn profit. The Guardian World News
In the past two years all central banks had to move well beyond any single-minded focus on inflation. Times, Sunday Times
Ministers need to focus on behaviour and discipline. The Sun
The March 2009 edition of Focus on Mimas is now available. Focus on Mimas - March 2009
With the bumsters' new focus on butt-cleavage within the society of the naked ape, push-up brassieres will have to compete aggressively to bring attention back to the chest.
The book is a collection of self-reflective essays that focus on the impact of personal and institutional sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism and ethnocentrism on the 12 women.
If you question the cost; a local agency told us we should focus on the child and somehow raise the money.
They focus on the family, analysing both its internal structure and its functions for the wider society.
Infectious etiologies of chronic diseases: Focus on women. The Autoimmune Epidemic
Focus on supplier assessment, RM inspection and quality status analysis to ensure raw materials Mission's requirements.
The next step is a focus on specific rhetorical devices.
We desperately need a budget process in which respected, nonpartisan experts have real standing to publicly evaluate budget numbers, with less focus on meeting immediate spending or deficits and greater focus on long-term accrued obligations. Chicagotribune.com - News
Of course, using that to 'remarket' to users who leave the site will drive conversion with little waste and will focus on the right folks from the sales funnel. Technology and Creativity in Digital Marketing: Better Together - Michael Kassan - MediaBizBloggers
Lesser priests and priestesses serve the shrines of fetishes, minor spirits, and focus on cures and magic charms.
This intense focus on texture rather than structure is a sign that a radically different kind of reading is taking place. The Times Literary Supplement
It means that he can retire from spelling to focus on pursuing a career path in quantum physics. Times, Sunday Times
This focus on evaluating the evidence for ‘cryptids’ is continued by the International Society for Cryptozoology.
Then attention shifted to a relentless focus on levels of government spending on public services.
We will focus on the 120, which are a representation of quaternionic fields. The Lopsided Universe
The best way to carry out this enormous project is to focus on personal, family and neighborhood levels; several GOLA units may assign to themselves the task of examining whether remote villages and hamlets have been taken in charge by locally established GOLA units; if not, GOLA units established by Oromos in big cities must take care of the remote villages´ populations and of their experience of the Abyssinian tyranny. American Chronicle
The uncertainties associated with large federal budget deficits warn against exclusive focus on the total spending done by government.
After weeks and weeks of blurred vision and of holding books and paper at arm's length, the whole world, near and far, leapt into sharp focus once more.
And before we go elsewhere, focus on the colors, in particular the distinct colorations of the buildings in the city.
Society-wide measures of religious behavior muffle portentous change that may be occurring at the younger edge of the population, so social prognosticators just like commercial advertisers focus on trends among young adults, trying to discern which aspects of behavior are what they are because the youths are young, and which aspects are what they are because of when they are young. American Grace
Out went golf courses and shops in favour of a firmer focus on industrial and business space. Times, Sunday Times
The review is likely to focus on a revival of nuclear power and clean coal technology. Times, Sunday Times
Most of your wedding plans will focus on the practical details, but take care not to neglect yourself in the process.
His blue eyes didn't seem to focus on any one person on the floor below him, but seemed to see all of them without focusing.
In this section, we focus on how businesses are using nascent concepts such as "anything-as-a-service", "multisided business models", "the co-creation of content" and "innovation from the bottom of the pyramid" to create successful and sustainable businesses in the face of disruption. Rebooting Business
We all feel better for doing exercise, yet we seem to forget those sensations and focus on the discomfort and time spent doing it. Times, Sunday Times
Applications here focus on using gigabit networks to combine the processing power of multiple supercomputers for climate and chemical reaction modeling.
Above all, investors need to focus on the maths rather than the drama or poetry of political knockabout. Times, Sunday Times
But with the dollar on the floor and clients in scant supply, it was hard to focus on much else. Times, Sunday Times
It will instead focus on less risky activities such as helping businesses to borrow money as well as providing payment services. The Sun
As the UK austerity drive gets going, the focus on public sector spend has become razor sharp. Computing
It's wonderful to work with someone whose changes and ideas for the art are obviously concerned with the success of the illustration itself and how it works in the book, and not simply one-sided fiddling and rearranging based on individual preference or a stilting focus on the exactness of how a scene was imagined originally. The art of Leviathan, Part Two: An interview with Keith Thompson
They always seem to focus on surprise and juxtaposition, or tension relief, or catharsis, or something.
The guidelines focus on requirements for flammability, tear strength, abrasion resistance, washability, scrubbability, and stain resistance.
A good dog training program will focus on allowing the dog to learn just what is expected of it, and will use positive reinforcement to reward desired behaviors.
The world now adapts to a trisected geopolitical system, and leaders must begin to focus on minimizing the inevitable strive that will result.
Focus on the subject and keep your finger depressed on the focus lock.
We are trying to home in on the talent, focus on the best stories, and we try to be low-key and modest about our role.
I sheepishly meet his eyes for a moment and then focus on the hemp string around his neck.
They both focus on the purpose of their relationship. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
The staff wanted to focus on strengthening the contract, but workers in a poll emphasized organizing the nonunion hotels.
For a dad to succeed in winning infant custody, his approach must focus on establishing that his guardianship is the best choice for the child's growth and development. MyLinkVault Newest Links
The notion that economies, as a whole, sometimes lack sufficient drive derives from a faulty set of economic doctrines that focus on the demand side of the aggregate economy.
Participants will also focus on a class of microbes known as the archaea, which literally means ‘ancient.’
As others have already said, I don’t think the focus on number of pages in the bluebook is particularly insightful. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Case for Abolishing the Bluebook
On the way home from the gare, I decided to positiver: to not focus on my aunt and uncle's absence, rather to turn the lonely ride into a Sunday drive (opting for the scenic and free route nationale instead of the autoroute). Kindness of strangers
The plot of the five-issue miniseries is loosely based on the Fall Out Boy song "Tiffany Blews" and will focus on "a mysterious toymaker, a cyborg gal named Tiffany and a kid in a bear suit that looks lifted from the cover of Fall Out Boy's Folie á Deux," their latest album released last year. Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz to write Fall Out Toyworks for Image | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Workout tip Focus on controlling breathing patterns. Times, Sunday Times
The arguments therefore tend to focus on three borderline questions: What is the minimum fault required for conviction of murder?
Partners can put arguments to one side and focus on what bonds them. The Sun
Prevention campaigns focus on monogamy and fidelity.
They're spinning off noncore operations to focus on their specialties.
Head injuries that harm the parietal lobe can also impair the ability to focus on one object at a time, write words (agraphia), and name objects CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
She couldn't adjust her eyes to focus on my panic-stricken face.
Typically, managers focus on operating their area of assigned responsibility for efficiency, cost containment, and compliance with delivery schedules.
Instead of flitting from one idea to the next, you now focus on one project and make it work. The Sun
I did have ideas for an 'Engage' page up front which links users to blogs, discussions, and questions but I've decided to park that for now and focus on other requirements.
When your heart hammers, focus on breathing more slowly for three minutes to calm yourself. Times, Sunday Times
Although the plans focus on developing China's high-tech sector, they also include increases in state funding to popularise science, and to improve scientific training in rural areas.
Other exhibits focus on placer and lode deposits, major gold rushes, and uses of gold through the centuries.
The month of Ramadan is a time to focus on family togetherness.
Warp 11 doesn't just focus on altenative/punk style of music, they dabble in a wide range of styles, all of them on display on this album. REVIEW: It's Dead, Jim by Warp 11
This album is a bit different in its strong focus on the four-handed piano works.
There have been a number of 20c scholarly grammars of English characterized by a decidedly descriptive approach and a focus on syntax.
Creating fascination is one of the best ways to create focus on anything you want to achieve. How to Create an Article of 1,000+ Words in 90 Minutes or Less | Write to Done
There is also an increasing tendency to take cadets from the multitude of journalism courses, which focus on the skills which are easily picked on the job, rather than expanding the outlook and knowledge of graduates.
Chick said Saturday, adding that in retrospect, the focus on HMOs alone was too narrow.
With a miracle of even greater proportions required to propel his new side to similar glories, he is keen just to focus on the next round.
Focus on the knottiest problems about how to share custody in a way that benefits the child. Tara Fass: The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Kids Post-Split
For today I think Eliade's focus on what he called hierophany, the eruption of the divine into the mundane is the most important thing. UUpdates - All updates
Seriously, it seems a lot of people who focus on current biological science become remarkably 'reductionist' and in many ways are still thinking of the universe as a 'clockwork' - that idea has been outdated in physics for over century, time for Richard Dawkins to catch up. Fibonacci Patterns
But in truth we have chosen to shelve the unification-independence dispute and focus on reviving the economy and strengthening Taiwan.
It is a focus on solving the problem to make color monitor comply with the interrelated standard.
It is true that everyone has problems, and it is also true that every problem has a solution. If this is the reality of life, then why not focus on solutions rather than problems. RVM
Designer Li Xinggang once said the bowl shape would help spectators focus on the bottom center of the container, and integrate people and the structure as a whole.
In the offseason, Peppers gave up hoops to focus on football.
For investors, management's focus on cash flow is important since consumption trends may continue to bedevil the industry.
Stacey continued to babble on, totally naïve to the fact that she was causing so many eyes to focus on her.
You know which personal ambition you should focus on and which you should put on hold. The Sun
The club can focus on recruiting other players and preparing for next season. Times, Sunday Times
I just have to sort of pause and let the brain reset from the complete focus on the chocolate. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
Every one of these embarrassing digressions from a pure focus on gun rights drives away more and more people who don’t agree with the position being pandered to. The Volokh Conspiracy » NRA Convention report
Boy, I wish I hadn't seen this post because I suspect I'm going to now overfocus on that darned cocoa as I move through the book! Tish! That's French!
Let your eyes focus on objects that are further away from you.
Returning to England as "the Heroine of the Crimea", she used personal illness (a disabling condition that Bostridge and his peers identify as brucellosis) to hold her family at bay so as to be free to focus on the business of sanitary and medical reform for which she has become justly celebrated. Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
His intellectual rigour and sharp focus on finances have also kept Quinn out of financial trouble.
The signature brow beating and bleating dirges still abound, but there's an increased focus on songwriting rather than the moping first-person exposition that typified their first few records.
In a serendipitous coincidence, the Arts Council's new plan included a focus on criticism as an art form.
He will focus on repositioning its brand in the external world. Times, Sunday Times
When the group almost split over the issue of whether to focus on confrontational action or voter registration, she healed the breach by saying it should work on both.
Future research should focus on such traits of cowbird relatives and on how these traits preadapted a particular lineage to become parasites.
The cluster team will focus on new opportunities for the development of new timber products.
Light of this type can often cause lens flare and, if using auto focus, cause the camera to focus on the wrong subject.
What I'm going to do in this lecture is focus on something very specific.
Always focus on the front windshield and not the rearview mirror.
Rod Carew would insert a big chew to tighten his face and help him focus on an incoming pitch.
You can focus on the future instead of being held back by the past. The Sun
There's also a focus on beautiful skins and high-quality buttery leather. Times, Sunday Times
The idea behind constructing the food ladder is for the sufferer to focus on the sorts of food which she would like to be able to eat. Beyond Chaotic Eating
It tends to focus on the city centre, with its wide streets and huge civic buildings.
People will continue to debate the racial and sexual politics of Mapplethorpe's portraits: Does his "fetishistic" focus on the massive genitals of his black subjects propagate insidious stereotypes of black male sexuality? Archive 2009-07-01
The third reason is to encourage a focus on aspects of evolution sometimes obscured by controversial issues, such as sociobiology and evolutionary psychology.
You'd think that I would have beaten Whitfield to the punch in my own videocast with Frank, but I was content to focus on Frank's positive contribution. David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates
Cognitive models focus on maladaptive or biased thought processes, whereas interpersonal models focus on social difficulties and stressful interpersonal environments as precipitants of psychopathology.
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They focus on core programs in analytics, and then have a very experiential period - similar to the clinical rotations used in other professions.
Some of the pieces seemed autobiographical, others were clearly completely fictional, but there was a lot more focus on emotion, memory, and poetic language (example: "the blue sky hanging in acres above the yellow leaves") than I have in my own work or am used to seeing in SF. Hotlips writing workshop
Noyce's film is lean, making its point by maintaining a sharp focus on the humanity of its characters.
We will focus on the important games coming up in a short period of time. The Sun
But this focus on play is nothing new, says a researcher at Sweden's University of Gothenburg.
The researchers focus on the concept of "evenness" -- the relative abundance of different species, including predators and pests, in a farm's ecosystem. Grist - the latest from Grist
One could analyze from a biochemical perspective and focus on interactions on a molecular level. Alice In Wonderland official trailer
Banks must introspect on issues such as excessive risk taking, misselling of foreign exchange derivatives, and an excessive focus on quarterly earnings, Mr. Subbarao added. RBI: Guidelines on New Bank Licenses Soon
Increasingly the role of initial assessment will take on a new importance and will focus on centres' guidance structures and procedures.
Here we focus on the tire players who excel at the most critical skills of the trade: scoring, ballhandling, defending, shooting and passing.
He said that the mayor ought to focus on what he called New York City's "skyrocketing crime rate. NYT > Home Page
The company has exited from a number of non-performing businesses to focus on its core airport operations.
In any event, the sense at the meeting was that the bishops need to focus on putting the Catholic house in order, concentrating on evangelization, catechesis, the Eucharist, and the priesthood.
By dogmatically employing ‘news values’ that focus on conflict, drama and simplicity, we get the political stakes raised to the point where political leaders are induced into playing the game of dumbing it down to win the media war.
However, her pictures are not about the romantic images that these conjure up, but focus on the world they transport the viewer too.
At this stage of the trial the defence lawyer often shifts the focus onto the victim.
But the reality is that a single script or set of scripts that focus on the automation of components rather than systems and architectures is not going to scale well and will instead end up contributing to the diseconomy of scale that was and still is the primary driver behind the next-generation network. OakLeaf Systems
She is better able to focus on simpler pictures.
We hope to find ways to focus on some of the wonderful new achievements of science as a counterbalance in our pages to the popularly appealing but content-free and intellectually sterile fringe-sciences and pseudosciences.
The project will focus on six ports including Milford Haven, Pembroke Dock and Fishguard in Pembrokeshire and Rosslare, Waterford and New Ross in South East Ireland.
Part of the Atlantic Stampede's appeal during its 14 years of bull riding and calf roping is its focus on entertainment.
Those saddened by the remoteness of peace in South Asia or the Middle East may be helped by a fourth Hindu concept, that of action without a focus on its fruits.
Yet choice, as it is discussed today, is a symptom of a larger, societal problem; shouldn't we focus on that, rather than problematising the idea of choice itself?
This focus on "niceness" in critical approaches to young adult fiction -- a genre almost overwhelmingly produced and consumed by women -- is not accidental. Sarah McCarry: Faking Nice in the Blogosphere: Women and Book Reviews
The focus on the single political actor has analytic advantages, since data gathering and analysis can be precise and intensive.
I think your single-minded focus on pain, however, shows that you think the level of pain involved is the only critical element of a holocaust. ProWomanProLife » Back to school
Re: There are certain anomalies that ID likes to focus on (OOL, bacterial flagellum). Bradley Monton's Paper criticizing Dover Decision
Still the only youth regatta in the UK to focus on keelboat racing rather than dinghies, the event has a rich tradition of nurturing friendly rivalry, bringing through some of the top Scottish sailors.
The issues that I would like to focus on are the geoducks and whelks to start off with, and cockles and pipi.
Although its origins can certainly be traced to a mystical tradition, alchemy differs from mysticism and other occult arts in its combined focus on precision in both chemical and spiritual processes.
At this point in the analysis the more narrow focus on production merges with a second broader area of interest.
The viewing and drinking of martinis is relatively intuitive, so I'll focus on their manufacture. Archive 2005-05-01
Rooms are tastefully done, with the focus on antique furnishings, canopy beds and plush textiles. Times, Sunday Times
Some focus on rigorous selection and training of volunteers, who are expected to bring skills to the project and show results. Times, Sunday Times
The book is a collection of self-reflective essays that focus on the impact of personal and institutional sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism and ethnocentrism on the 12 women.
The pitcher has to focus on his wrist movement and finger placement to keep the softball from cutting, techniques he hopes to carry into games.
With their focus on growth and with intensive demands on time and resources, SMEs are particularly receptive to this exciting new business environment. Computing
Today's technicians welcome the focus on their jobs and feel up to the challenge.
Instead, member states will contribute forces from their own militaries with a focus on swift, precise operations. Times, Sunday Times
Ivivi Technologies, Inc. is a medical technology company focusing on designing, developing and commercializing its proprietary electrotherapeutic technology platform, with a primary focus on developing treatments for cardiovascular disease. News
The show uses video surveillance footage, interviews and re-enactments to focus on lamebrain criminal acts.
Focus on honing these attributes and enhancing them with improved technique. Times, Sunday Times
By reversing the orientation of the chapels to face the ambulatory, where noise is more frequent, he allows the worshipper to focus on the altar.
These include epilepsy, fibromyalgia, various interesting respiratory things, a whole passel of cormorbid conditions piggybacking on the fibro, et cetera - but for the purposes of this meme, I'm going to focus on the epilepsy, as it's less common. Friday!
But the talk about who can lead us to a recovery tends to focus on the politicians, banks and global financial powerhouses. The Sun
Instead of thinking about what we do not want, we need to focus on what we do want. HABIT BUSTING: A 10-step plan that will change your life
They can get a bit fed up with the focus on its glorious industrial past. Times, Sunday Times
The December 2007 edition of Focus on Mimas is now available. Focus on Mimas - December 2007
Interestingly, the first season puts a strong focus on the relationship between father Howard and son Ritchie, the two working cooperatively and sometimes combatively through the ups and downs of teenage life.
But a related reason has been the focus on the historical particularity of Jesus: Jesus the Aramaic-speaking, Jewish male of the first century.
We should focus on the new designs and innovations that can be developed in the future.
All in all, his relentless focus on the last several years produces a cartoon version of Lubavitcher history.

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