The phrase "as its focal point" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate the main focus or central aspect of a discussion, argument, or piece of work.
Example: "The study examines climate change, with its focal point being the impact on polar ice caps."
Alternatives: "as its central theme" or "as its main focus."
Hodgson was surely persuaded to use this system, and use Sterling as its focal point, by the way it worked once he put it into operation with success in the latter stages of the friendly win against Norway at Wembley.
In contrast, Chapter 14 maintains as its focal point the Bankruptcy Code's existing goal of reorganizing to protect creditors.
The moody "Sunset Landscape with Pond" (1886) by Henry Farrer has as its focal point a pond, surrounded by dark trees, which is glassy and steel-gray.
With Jagr as its focal point for the past three seasons, training camp for the Rangers was not a hit-the-ground-running enterprise.
Instead, the interior architecture of the house, with the garden as its focal point, served the aesthetic and social requirements that furniture has served in many societies.
The present village originated as a fishing settlement and is now mainly a summer resort, with Pretty Bay as its focal point.
The same goes for Iran -- with its support for Hezbollah -- that is also fighting ISIS and engaged in a proxy Sunni-Shiite sectarian conflict with Sunni nations, with Iraq, Syria and Yemen as its focal points.
There, in 1958, he heard Anna Mae Bullock, who joined the group and quickly became its focal point as Tina Turner.
What happened in the wake of the assassination was that a spot on the edge of Dealey Plaza became its focal point — just as the shooting turned a peripheral site in Dallas into a place of intense scrutiny.
Even our small attempts at state-wide mass transit gravitate toward having Orlando as its main focal point, and the Disney park is the reason.
The Nation article is structured around the quoted excerpts which serve as its dramatic focal points.
