The phrase "able to focus the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capability to concentrate on a specific task or subject.
Example: "She is able to focus the team's efforts on achieving their goals."
Alternatives: "capable of concentrating the" or "able to direct the".
"To be able to focus the way he has is a credit to him.
With more study, the researchers were able to focus the flash on individual transistors within the chip by beaming the flash through a standard laboratory microscope.
Thus, although it is more spherical, an elderly lens is less and less able to focus the light from nearby objects.
"We were able to focus the Republican Party on defending their status quo while we were working on moving Nassau County forward," he said in a victory speech for Mr. Lavine.
He added that "as Irish-Americans have been able to focus the attention of our policy makers," so, too, would the audience on Tuesday night be able "to play its proper role in helping to focus the attention of our country on issues in Nigeria or Ethiopia or Ghana or Cameroon or South Africa".
Richard Baker, the president of the Managed Funds Association, a trade group representing hedge funds, said the group was "disappointed that the commission was not able to focus the scope of the form to a more targeted set of data points".
And a special nod to the member of the ensemble whose work I was able to focus on the second time I saw the show for obvious reasons.
"He will be able to focus on the building with the authority unmatched by a secretary of defense since George Marshall," Mr. Gingrich said.
The objective was to be able to focus on the top six challenges per scenario for the rest of the workshop.
Now, his victory in the primary means they will be able to focus on the real prize of New Jersey politics: the governor's race in 2001.
"To be able to focus on the field and in the classroom, you have to have everything else settled outside," Houston Coach Dom Capers said.
