Sentence examples for attempt to refocus from inspiring English sources

Experienced IOC executive director Gilbert Felli has been dispatched to lead a troubleshooting team and attempt to refocus on the most pressing issues.

The London conference is a radical attempt to refocus the efforts of the international community on saving lives in Syria, and preventing refugees from risking their lives in despair.

Written by David Simon and Bill Zorzi, directed with unshowy simplicity by Paul Haggis, and based on the excellent nonfiction book by Lisa Belkin, "Show Me a Hero" is an attempt to refocus that picture — to find beauty in daily struggles and civic courage, not in bad-boy fantasies.

David Cameron said the package of bills marked a "ruthless" attempt to refocus the work of the government on "hard-working families" as Downing Street removed what the Tories' new campaign director, Lynton Crosby, referred to as "the barnacles off the boat" from its legislative programme.

Thanks to the leadership of Pennsylvania Republican congressman Tim Murphy, the mental-health provisions of the Cures Act attempt to refocus SAMHSA and CMHS on the seriously ill--as opposed to the worried well--and to rely on science rather than pop psychology.

Responding to a call for government agents or agencies to be held liable for malfeasance and gratuitous lethal force with "But can we talk about black-on-black crime?" is a willful attempt to refocus the discussion away from critiquing culture and social systems marred by racism.

The non-diet and size-acceptance movements have long attempted to refocus the conversation to physical and emotional health.

After a spate of personal mishaps (all captured by the paps in the burgeoning years of TMZ and gossip blogs), Spears attempted to refocus the attention on her music with a bikini-clad VMAs performance.

The government attempted to refocus the debate on changes to the Qantas Sale Act – which restricts foreign ownership of the airline – after Qantas posted its figures for the last six months of 2013.

That offers it some leeway as it attempts to refocus the business.

The move indicated Yahoo's attempts to refocus on its core business as a media content company and return some funds to its long-suffering shareholders.