Factories in France failed, attention shifted to Germany, and an extraordinary saga ensued, whereby a mathematician called Tschirnhaus, who had contacts with Spinoza and Leibnitz, teamed up with a damaged boy alchemist called Böttger.
When deciding if a gift has failed, attention is first turned to the wording of the trust instrument.
Yet small businesses have most certainly ended up on the short end of this crisis, because the government has determined that only those organizations that are too big to fail demand attention.
The Bush administration supported a Ugandan assault on Kony's forested encampment, but when it failed, executive attention faded.
But the members of the younger generation in Tea Alagic's head-scratcher of an interpretation fail to hold attention.
Bertolaso pointed a finger at those "who fail to pay attention to the alarms and appeals of the authorities".
If principals fail to pay attention to parent councils, interest disappears and the system breaks down very quickly.
It could either split into philosophical factions or, as it did under Lord Pearson, simply fail to generate attention.
This reader wonders: Did the author, Jim Frederick, also fail to pay attention to the gender dimension of the rape of an indigenous young woman by a foreign army?
Spread across its nine sections, each named after a different character, are slow patches; thin, undercooked dialogue; and plot byways that fail to hold attention.
We are addicted to the process of falling in Love and fail to pay attention to the Act of being in Love.
