But Catherine Ashton, high representative for foreign affairs and security policy of the European Union, could and should provide such a focal point for the Continent.
They think this initiative could mark the beginning of an African energy renaissance in which the continent becomes the focal point of a global solar power industry.
The findings certainly unseat the Eurocentric view of history framing that continent as the focal point for cultural activity.
By contrast, the relatively modest Belgian capital was chosen in 1958 as a temporary home for the European Union's predecessor, the European Economic Community, partly because it was no rival to the continent's traditional urban focal points of nationalist pride.
In the present study aimed at illustrating the utility of the mechanistic niche model, I calculated the realized climate space based on North and South America because the two continents are connected and minimally encompass all focal bird species' distributions.
But Kim, even on a different continent and in an unexpected venue, is still the focal point here.
As University of Colorado historian Patricia Limerick notes in A Ditch in Time, her history of Denver's water works, Colorado's first governor, William Gilpin, even saw the state capital as "a focal point of impregnable power in the topographical configuration of the continent".
Zoom in on focal areas and regions Don't feel constrained by the need to show whole continents or countries.
Perhaps Wills's most infamous match, and certainly the one she extolled as the focal point of her playing career, was her only meeting with Lenglen, the queen of the continent, in a much ballyhooed showdown at Cannes in 1926.
The focal mechanisms indicate that the stresses are aligned with the dip of the lithosphere underneath the adjacent continent or island arc.
