She performed in supporting roles in some 11 operas, but in 1960, having become assistant manager of what was by then the Lyric Opera, she chose to concentrate on administration and gave up her stage career.
On taking command of the squadron, he chose to stop flying personally in order to concentrate on administration, a decision which was regarded dismissively by his men; relations were strained until January 1916, when he demonstrated his courage by walking into a burning bomb store to try to control the fire.
He has instead concentrated on better administration, quietly promoting his own aides to key positions in the state bureaucracy.
I am one to those people who was delighted at the formation of the Ministry of Justice, concentrating on the administration of justice, without the distractions of terrorism and homeland security.
In the retail trade, Sir Robert was generally viewed as the more retiring of the two brothers, concentrating on finance, administration and personnel matters and focusing on improving working conditions for the staff, complementing the rise of the postwar state welfare system, which both brothers supported.
The same century, the first of the Christian era, gave birth to the three first truly "professional" biographers Plutarch and Suetonius (discussed above) and the historian Tacitus, whose finely wrought biography of his father-in-law, Agricola, concentrating on the administration rather than the man, has something of the monumental quality of Roman architecture.
The key to a Democratic success in next year's Congressional election is clearly in the party leadership's coming up with a campaign that does not concentrate on the Bush administration's failures but offers alternative programs to fix what it believes is wrong with the Republican agenda.
It would be productive if, given that all reform proposals (including their own) include some form of large-scale government intervention in the health-insurance market, Republicans could concentrate on slamming the Obama administration for poor execution of its health-insurance law rather than on wholesale critiques of the concept of government health-insurance reform as such.
To allow the lord to concentrate on his duties regarding administration, he had a household of servants to take care of chores such as providing food.
Instead, he predicts the Obama administration will "concentrate on things that would prevent terror, like higher education".
The risk is that the administration will concentrate on the easiest deals, which least enhance international exchange.
