From next year, he told them, the Irish army would resume its long discontinued Easter military parade down O'Connell Street, past the Dublin GPO building, focal point of the 1916 rising that led to the existence of the Irish republic itself.
Regional offices and divisions must of course continue to be responsible for activity-level monitoring as well as for sharing progress updates, either through the Crisis Preparedness Working Group and/or the global network of capacity-building focal points.
Many communities are trying to build focal points.
The Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Administration Building, commonly known as Tech Tower, is a historic building and focal point of the central campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Techh) in Atlanta, Georgia, US.
Politicians and clergymen holding talks at the monastery reached a preliminary agreement on demilitarising the area round the White House parliament building, the focal point of the crisis brought on last month when President Yeltsin issued a decree dissolving parliament.
Domes in cathedrals and capitols closely approximate the shape of an ellipse, so that such buildings often possess focal points and function as a type of whispering chamber.
ONCE, the Elijah Hubbell building was a focal point of downtown Bridgeport.
That building is the focal point for GCHQ's continuing mission to produce signals intelligence, protect government communications from compromise and help defend the UK's interests in cyberspace.
Councillor Andrew McKinlay, Cheltenham Borough Council's cabinet member for sport and culture, said: "This huge redevelopment scheme will create a 'first stop' for visitors to Cheltenham with the relocation of the Tourist Information Centre in the new building, and a focal point for the development of a 'cultural quarter' in the town".
The "tombs," as the societies' buildings are called, are good focal points in a campus tour.
"It's an icon or component of what a company wants to build for itself, a focal point for how it's building its business.
