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单词 focus
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focus
(fkəs )
Word forms: foci (fsaɪ ), focuses , focusing , focused language note:   The spellings focusses, focussing, focussed are also used. The plural of the noun can be either foci or focuses.
1. verb B2
If you focus on a particular topic or if your attention is focused on it, you concentrate on it and think about it, discuss it, or deal with it, rather than dealing with other topics.
The research effort has focused on tracing the effects of growing levels of five compounds. [VERB on noun]
He is currently focusing on assessment and development. [VERB + on]
Today he was able to focus his message exclusively on the economy. [VERB noun on noun]
Many of the papers focus their attention on the controversy surrounding the Foreign Secretary. [VERB noun + on]
2. countable noun [usually singular] B2
The focus of something is the main topic or main thing that it is concerned with.
The U.N.'s role in promoting peace is increasingly the focus of international attention.
The new system is the focus of controversy. [+ of]
Her children are the main focus of her life. [+ of]
Synonyms: centre, focal point, central point, core  
3. countable noun [usually singular] B2
Your focus on something is the special attention that you pay it.
He said his sudden focus on foreign policy was not motivated by presidential politics.
The report's focus is on how technology affects human life rather than business.
IBM has also shifted its focus from mainframes to personal computers.
Synonyms: attention, concern, priority, concentration  
4. uncountable noun
If you say that something has a focus, you mean that you can see a purpose in it.
Somehow, though, their latest album has a focus that the others have lacked.
Suddenly all of the seemingly isolated examples took on a meaningful focus.
5. verb
If you focus your eyes or if your eyes focus, your eyes adjust so that you can clearly see the thing that you want to look at. If you focus a camera, telescope, or other instrument, you adjust it so that you can see clearly through it.
Kelly couldn't focus his eyes well enough to tell if the figure was male or female. [VERB noun]
His eyes slowly began to focus on what looked like a small dark ball. [VERB + on]
He found the binoculars and focused them on the boat. [VERB noun + on]
Had she kept the camera focused on the river bank she might have captured a vital scene. [VERB-ed]
[Also VERB]
Synonyms: fix, train, direct, aim  
6. uncountable noun
You use focus to refer to the fact of adjusting your eyes or a camera, telescope, or other instrument, and to the degree to which you can see clearly.
His focus switched to the little white ball.
Together these factors determine the depth of focus.
It has no manual focus facility.
7. verb
If you focus rays of light on a particular point, you pass them through a lens or reflect them from a mirror so that they meet at that point.
Magnetic coils focus the electron beams into fine spots. [VERB noun preposition]
8. countable noun
The focus of a number of rays or lines is the point at which they meet. [technical]
9. in focus phrase
If an image or a camera, telescope, or other instrument is in focus, the edges of what you see are clear and sharp.
Pictures should be in focus, with realistic colours and well composed groups.
Synonyms: clear, sharp, distinct, crisp  
10. in focus phrase
If something is in focus, it is being discussed or its purpose and nature are clear.
This aggression is the real issue. We want to keep that in focus.
They brought into sharp focus the dilemma facing the Prime Minister.
11. out of focus phrase
If an image or a camera, telescope, or other instrument is out of focus, the edges of what you see are unclear.
In some of the pictures the subjects are out of focus while the background is sharp.
...a lot of out-of-focus photographs.
Synonyms: blurred, obscure, unclear, fuzzy  
12. out of focus phrase [verb-link PHRASE, PHRASE after verb]
If something is out of focus, it is not being discussed or its purpose or nature is not clear.
The deficit in the U.S. balance of payments put these considerations out of focus.
What is confusing is when the argument gets out of focus.
Collocations:
become the focus
Skills on the ball became the focus, and athletic balance rather than muscle and bulk.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The case has become a focus for criticism of the death penalty.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
This quickly became the focus of the election campaign.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
central focus
These questions and others are the central focus of this book, which is an introduction to that science of social life known as sociology.
Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (1995)
With its wide geographical range, and political rather than criminal central focus, it is perhaps no wonder that the plot is stretched and sagging.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
These issues provide the central focus for this chapter.
Basic Marketing. Principles and Practice (1986)
clear focus
We must put the past behind us and move forward with a clear focus on what we need to do next.
The Sun (2008)
I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
That would give us a clear focus for the second half of the season.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
focus heavily
He will focus heavily on discipline.
The Sun
Biochemists focus heavily on the role, function, and structure of biomolecules.
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Vanguard will focus heavily on interdependence, challenge, and reward, while simultaneously addressing tedious and annoying issues, including camping, excessive downtime and more.
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His strategy was to focus heavily on policy, and his party introduced a record number of pieces of legislation for an opposition party.
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This allows for students to focus heavily on one particular area, or elect to pursue one or more languages.
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focus increasingly
By the end of the 1960s he had begun to focus increasingly on social and political issues.
Times, Sunday Times
A new wave of editors effected a politicization of the magazine, which came to focus increasingly on the sociological issues surrounding the built environment.
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In the eight years since he took the helm of the world's biggest drinks company, he has focused increasingly on premium brands that command premium prices.
Times, Sunday Times
High street banks and other financial services companies are becoming focused increasingly on this lucrative market, but are the products offered exclusively to the over-50s the best option?
Times, Sunday Times
The survey of 3,133 sixth-formers, current students and graduates also shows that most are focusing increasingly on their career after graduation rather than enjoying the experience of being a student.
Times, Sunday Times
focus initially
However, cost constraints have meant that it will focus initially on full-time judges and tribunal members.
Times, Sunday Times
The focus initially was almost exclusively related to science fiction but expanded to include most genres.
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Having focused initially on the physical marketing of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, minerals and crude oil, the company expanded into oil products.
Times, Sunday Times
The company focused initially on filming nature at a microscopic level, including insect and aquatic wildlife.
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While there, he made his first serious writing attempts, focusing initially on poetry.
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focus intensely
A very errant mind that could focus intensely on a book which she would consume and just absorb it.
Times, Sunday Times
A very errant mind that could focus intensely.
The Sun
Then you focus intensely on him or her.
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Then, he began to focus intensely on such issues as corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, together with ethical finance.
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They are not very creative, but can focus intensely on developing something, such as a disrupter field that paralyzes the cyborgs, whom they regard as enemies.
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focus intently
The sanction makes participants focus intently, which may seem like a positive but means that they struggle to see the bigger picture.
Times, Sunday Times
You'll focus intently on work and make it your mission to cut through red tape.
The Sun
Every bass line, drumbeat, riff and melody stands out as you focus intently on each note in your particular instrument.
The Sun
Dependency-based structures are minimal compared to their constituency-based counterparts, and these minimal structures allow one to focus intently on the two ordering dimensions.
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It will bring much of the sub-continent to a standstill, one billion pairs of eyes focusing intently on the action.
Times, Sunday Times
focus largely
Early prairie restoration efforts tended to focus largely on a few dominant species, typically grasses, with little attention to seed source.
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Discussion has focused largely on the issue of separating retail banking from investment banking - or at least ensuring that these activities are separately capitalised.
Times, Sunday Times
During this period of intense celebrity watching, interest focused largely on the clothes and gems on display.
Times, Sunday Times
They follow their own curriculum, focusing largely on learning about the natural world.
The Sun
So far, policymakers have focused largely on financial stability with a suite of new 'macroprudential' tools to take the froth out of asset bubbles.
Times, Sunday Times
focus mainly on
Negotiations focus mainly on agricultural and industrial goods, with potential progress in the liberalisation of commercial services, anti-dumping regulations and fishing subsidies.
Times, Sunday Times
Focus mainly on close personal attachments as everything else can wait.
The Sun
National rail projects focus mainly on minerals and tourism.
Times, Sunday Times
The government also seems to tread carefully in the capital, where shows of military force are rare and the police focus mainly on routine crimes.
Times, Sunday Times
Unlike works of high fantasy, the tales, though dramatic, focus mainly on personal battles rather than world-endangering matters.
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focus narrowly
Campaigns on liberty run by human rights lawyers focus narrowly on antiterror laws.
Times, Sunday Times
Many undergraduates find themselves under strong pressure from tutors to give up sport and focus narrowly on academic life.
Times, Sunday Times
And this worked: in simple tasks, paying attention and focusing narrowly pays dividends.
Times, Sunday Times
Focusing narrowly on 19 to 25-year-olds will exclude many deserving of help.
Times, Sunday Times
Instead, they focused narrowly on goals that, in some way, better reflected their self-interest.
Times, Sunday Times
focus primarily
It said that the review would focus primarily on the wholesale securities and investment markets and corporate, asset and investment banking.
Times, Sunday Times
On the other side are the more pastoral greens who focus primarily on renewables.
Times, Sunday Times
The first would focus primarily on reconciliation; the second on restructuring.
Christianity Today
These days their sales pitch to prospective signings tends to focus primarily on what the club can do for the player's commercial profile.
Times, Sunday Times
While ethical funds are plentiful, funds that focus primarily on companies that try to help the environment are in shorter supply.
Times, Sunday Times
focus resources
The new standard would instead focus resources on the regeneration of a whole area.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Senior police officers say the new screening techniques help focus resources on more serious crime and help improve detection targets.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The Government says that it wants to focus resources on those who need them most.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
focus solely
The first exhibition in this country since 1973 to focus solely on the post-impressionist's prints and drawings.
Times, Sunday Times
Put everything else to one side and focus solely on love and romance this week.
The Sun
They focus solely on the romance, which makes for a really intense and emotional read.
The Sun
The firm said it would update the webpage to 'focus solely on directing families to museums'.
The Sun
Others speak about it plenty, but they focus solely on truth without any love or grace.
Christianity Today
focus specifically
I am therefore more attracted to ideas that focus specifically on how to deal with long-term unemployment in the context of a flat economy.
Times, Sunday Times
They focus specifically on claims where vehicle damage appears minimal and — remarkably — when challenged, 65 per cent are withdrawn.
Times, Sunday Times
A new test at the end of primary school will focus specifically on grammar, spelling and punctuation.
Times, Sunday Times
We do better to focus specifically on two or three types of people in a message (changing who those two or three groups are each week).
Christianity Today
Many of these studies, however, focus specifically on the effects of globalization on urban decline through a critique of neoliberalism.
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focus squarely
Environmentally focused books for five to eight, meanwhile, tend to focus squarely on non-fiction, seeking to inform, motivate and call to arms.
The Times Literary Supplement
We should focus squarely on what we can do.
Times, Sunday Times
He appears thrilled — and rightly so — with his new album, which focuses squarely on voice and piano.
The Sun
This 'best of' rounds up studio and live cuts from the past 30 years, while a third disc focuses squarely on his great passion for the blues.
The Sun
The magazine originally started as a price guide to comics but evolved into focusing squarely on pop-culture, specifically targeting young adult males.
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focus the spotlight
This event will focus the spotlight on a serious injustice.
Times, Sunday Times
It's possible, surely, to view all our good deeds as satisfying our needy egos depending upon how we choose to focus the spotlight.
Times, Sunday Times
It was the star pair's flirty tweets which focused the spotlight on them.
The Sun
focus totally
You can focus totally on the interaction of the characters, on the energy, on tiny details.
Times, Sunday Times
I'm going to focus totally on 2012.
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She grimaces at the routine followed by so many of focusing totally on the sport and living a continuous cycle of airports, hotel rooms, practice courts and self-analysis.
Times, Sunday Times
Costa was focusing totally on the ball.
Times, Sunday Times
They're known for its odd humor, which relies heavily on absurdist and quasi-dadaist dialogs with the crowd and symbolism focusing totally on animals.
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focused approach
Other universities have taken a more focused approach.
Times, Sunday Times
A more focused approach should mean the shares have further to go.
Times, Sunday Times
He needs a more intensive, exclusive, focused approach.
Times, Sunday Times
This sermon and curriculum kit will help you present a healthy and focused approach to money.
Christianity Today
I prefer a more focused approach.
Times, Sunday Times
increase focus
Police officials attributed their success to an increased focus on the small number of people responsible for a majority of crimes and their patterns of criminal behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Increasing government focus on energy efficiency will help the group.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But next year will see changes, with an increased focus on celebrity content.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
increased focus
Police officials attributed their success to an increased focus on the small number of people responsible for a majority of crimes and their patterns of criminal behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Now, with the increased focus on diversity, boards have become more welcoming to women.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This largely contributed towards the increased focus and higher margins that you see today
ST (2097)
initial focus
For example, the initial focus on coronary heart disease meant that development of services for cardiac arrhythmias andnon-cardiac conditions was held back.
Times, Sunday Times
The initial focus has been on chemistry, biological screening and the logistics of sampling.
Times, Sunday Times
His initial focus was on the sorts of 'rewards' employees get.
Times, Sunday Times
Both companies said that the tie-up signalled a long-term commitment, although their initial focus would be short-term, high-yield investments in infrastructure, property and commercial lending and leasing in emerging markets.
Times, Sunday Times
With approximately 1.6 million boilers sold each year, this will be the initial focus of the business.
Times, Sunday Times
initiative focuses
The initiative focuses on the most critical economic, political and social issues facing the region.
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With the targeting of specific challenges, the initiative focuses on a variety of health problems inherent in todays developing world.
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Based on this result the initiative focuses on the effective detection of abusive material, especially to facilitate the screening work material seized by the policy.
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intense focus
It's hard to shake off such an intense focus on a child's wellbeing.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He speaks softly and earnestly, with intense focus.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Players get lost in the intense focus of their preparations and ambitions.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
keep focus
He always seemed destined for great things as long as he kept his focus and dedication.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
You've got to keep the focus on growth.
Times,Sunday Times (2020)
She has a good team of people around her and she has the ability to keep that focus, unlike most athletes I have seen.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
lack focus
Yet, as an album, it lacks focus.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
With respect, these suggestions lack focus and urgency.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The book jumps between so many places that it would be easy to feel it lacks focus.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
laser focus
Her face seemed newly hardened, with a laser focus.
Times,Sunday Times
However, she needs more of a laser focus on the plot.
Times, Sunday Times
You see, it's impossible for us to have a laser focus on the journey ahead when our lives and our identity are tied up in our past.
Christianity Today
He had a laser focus on detail.
Times, Sunday Times
Since multiphoton excited free electrons are always available at the beam focus, highly uniform and repeatable damage confined to the laser focus region results.
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lose focus
They lose focus, and their performance suffers.
Christianity Today (2000)
If you take notice of that stuff you can lose focus.
The Sun (2012)
Training days were missed and the focus was lost .
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
main focus
The javelin, however, remains her main focus and she explained its attraction.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The main focus is likely to centre around bringing track and train operations together.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
He has had his ups and downs but is sincere in his assertion that rugby is his main focus.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Aside from sleeping and dozing, the fire is my main focus.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
What will be your main focus areas this year?
Computing (2010)
maintain focus
All of the businesses have maintained a strong focus on protecting retail profit.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We've got to maintain that focus.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It's a question of maintaining focus and humility at that stage in your career.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
major focus
Although these companies may be willing to attempt some of the more difficult syntheses, this is not their major focus.
The Scientist (2001)
Where the theme of loss emerges without a major focus, one should encourage the person to identify the losses.
Pearson, Althea Growing Through Loss and Grief (1994)
Coach education is the major focus and that comes in both qualitative and quantitative terms.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
media focus
First, she worries about the news media focus on the words themselves, rather than their meaning.
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The noise of intensified operations was a major public concern and a high-profile media focus.
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Even his unusual jacket became the subject of media focus.
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He later recalled promoting the album as a bitter experience due to the media focus on his family rather than his own music.
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That's changing as insurance costs have started to rise in response to recent high-profile cyberattacks and as the media focuses more closely on the phenomenon.
Globe and Mail
narrow focus
Moreover, too narrow a focus misses the wider impact that hosting the Olympics can have on the host nation, both short and long term.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It narrowed the focus to men only.
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The quiet is constructive because it narrows the focus on what needs to be said.
Christianity Today (2000)
particular focus
In English for example, there is a particular focus on grammar and sentence structure and giving pupils a variety of writing opportunities.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
A particular focus will be enhancing diversity.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Surveyors say that one area of particular focus has been on property values.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
primary focus
So my primary focus was to identify anyone who had been in the house at the time.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Education and jobs were her primary focus.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
My primary focus is my son.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
relentless focus
Much of the recovery has been put down to a relentless focus on product.
Times, Sunday Times
Getting this vaccine job done well and quickly requires the relentless focus of one small, streamlined, specific unit.
Times,Sunday Times
A retailer with such a relentless focus on costs that it will sacrifice sales growth to drive cost efficiencies and profit-margin growth?
Times, Sunday Times
The accountant set about cutting costs and rejigged his executive team, while instilling a relentless focus on cash generation.
Times, Sunday Times
This approach runs counter to most business gurus' thinking and to most marketing approaches, which rely on relentless focus on one industry.
Times, Sunday Times
renewed focus
Second, there needs to be renewed focus on creating the right framework for innovation, including breaking down the intellectual property walls.
Times, Sunday Times
Often a subsequent return can bring renewed focus and determination.
Times, Sunday Times
We need a renewed focus on getting the basics right.
The Sun
While his rehabilitation has brought a renewed focus, he retains that edge of chaos that always makes for the most compelling screen presences.
Times, Sunday Times
Since then, there has been renewed focus on the pressures facing designers who operate at the top end of an increasingly competitive market.
Times, Sunday Times
researchers focus
The relatively new area of sensory ecology has emerged as more researchers focus on questions concerning information in the environment.
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Therefore, many researchers focus on enhancing the stability for cyanopyrrolidines.
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An increasing number of researchers focus on prenatal and perinatal exposure because developing organisms are extremely sensitive to chemicals that have hormone-like activity.
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Biochemist researchers focus on planning and conducting research experiments, mainly for developing new products, updating existing products and analyzing said products.
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Some researchers focus on issues of health and how social networks bring useful social support to the ill.
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sharp focus
The sun streams into your sign and brings hazy dreams into sharp focus.
The Sun (2009)
Our first stop brought into sharp focus the harsh realities the people here endured during the war.
The Sun (2014)
In the meantime, a challenge he faces came into sharp focus last week.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The whole book maintains a sharp focus on literary strength and originality, unafraid to make bold judgements about poetic value.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
sharpen the focus
You have to sharpen your focus on health.
Times, Sunday Times
They needed to sharpen the focus of their preparation.
Times, Sunday Times
Historical clutter distracts and distances; the austere and contemporary sharpen the focus on universal emotions.
Times, Sunday Times
To get through the crisis, they should look at cutting costs and sharpen the focus of their fundraising efforts, he argues.
Times, Sunday Times
As they tighten lending practices and price for profitability, they need to sharpen their focus on their most profitable customers.
Times, Sunday Times
shift the focus
This will enable you to shift the focus to your plans and, more important, get others involved - but you must move swiftly.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Acts of kindness help shift your focus away from your own worries and make you feel good.
The Sun (2020)
More broadly, it was part of an effort to shift the focus of the criminal justice system from the crime to the criminal.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
single-minded focus
His single-minded focus on introducing free schools and making schools responsible for teacher training, made him the outstanding postwar education secretary.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
I don't think it's ego, I think it's single-minded focus and desire.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In the past two years all central banks had to move well beyond any single-minded focus on inflation.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
singular focus
Beginning in 1967 as a small group, the church has kept its singular focus on group life.
Christianity Today
Please welcome a 21-year-old with a singular focus.
The Sun
This requires singular focus from every person involved in the record.
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This requires skills of group leadership, as well as the ability to maintain a singular focus even in the stressful, fast-paced environment of a film set.
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sole focus
Instead, their decisions will crystallise at a particular moment, and a sole focus on legal compliance - although essential - may not be sufficient to protect us.
Times, Sunday Times
His sole focus on auditors misses the main point.
Times, Sunday Times
It might even be the sole focus of that sermon.
Christianity Today
Perhaps that actually happened, because he became the sole focus of their attention, being the only reflection in their eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
The sole focus now should be on protecting lives and property and ensuring we are never this exposed again.
The Sun
special focus
This had taken 'a lot of co-ordination and special focus'.
SA Star
The tour has a special focus on local cuisine along the way.
The Sun
Why the special focus on coaching for entrepreneurs?
ST
Special focus would be given to strengthening lawmaking systems and processes, policy development, assessment of implementation capacity, oversight and accountability.
The Star (South Africa)
The special focus of the 2007 festival was on the independent short film.
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strategic focus
Your team needs you to provide clarity with fences or guardrails to protect them even from the good things that can deviate from your strategic focus.
Christianity Today
The defence research company lacked strategic focus and had weak controls, he said.
Times, Sunday Times
In 2003 the firm changed its strategic focus from a diversified property base to retail.
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The first strategic focus area includes lobbying activities.
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At the same time, there was a strategic focus on real-time based solutions for customer billing and administration in mobile telecommunication services.
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study focused on
The study focused on products that were easy to judge objectively, such as air-conditioning units and car batteries.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
One part of their study focused on the relationship between religion and political party affiliation in France.
Sanderson, Stephen K. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (1995)
The same trends are likely to exist in reptiles, amphibians and fish, but the study focused on mammals because of their rich fossil record.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This study focused on the microstructure evolution of glauberite and its weakening mechanism under different leaching conditions.
Shuzhao Chen, Donghua Zhang, Tao Shang, Tao Meng 2018, 'Experimental Study of the Microstructural Evolution of Glauberite and Its Weakening Mechanism under the Effect of Thermal-Hydrological-Chemical Coupling', Processes
This qualitative study focused on proxemic feelings and feelings of detachment and ambiguity among professors-nurses concerning their experiences.
Marlene Gomes Terra, Lucia Hisako Takase Gonçalves, Evanguelia Kotzias Atherino dos Santos, Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann 2010, 'Sensibility in the Relations and Interactions of Teaching and Learning to Be and Do Nursing La sensibilidad en las relaciones e interacciones entre el enseñar y aprender a ser y el hacer enfermería Sensibilidade nas relações e interações entre ensinar e aprender a ser e fazer enfermagem', Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
switch focus
The Harris County grand jury began hearing evidence in November, but switched focus as new information was uncovered.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In the 1950s, he switched career focus, founding his own fashion house in Los Angeles.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It is too easy to switch focus from the politics of opportunity to the politics of envy or blame.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
teaching focus
His practice and teaching focus on international financial and commercial transactions.
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His research and teaching focus on the relationship between phonology and phonetics.
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In general, teaching focuses on the development of oral skills.
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His research and teaching focuses on open and user innovation.
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Teaching focuses on cultivating students' oral and written abilities in foreign languages.
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tight focus
Brands used to favour a tight focus, a dictated look.
Times, Sunday Times
Much to praise in his tight focus and delicate rubato; but couldn't he sing out more?
Times, Sunday Times
These are intensive and last from one day to a week, with a tight focus on particular subjects and exam boards.
Times, Sunday Times
And the tight focus produces some splendidly colourful moments.
Times, Sunday Times
On its own, it also looks resilient, with a five-year land bank, a tight focus on costs and increasing exposure to urban regneration.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 焦点, 集中
Japanese: 焦点, 焦点を合わせる
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