The former president's participation, Mr. Burkle said, "brings attention and focal point to the funds".
Giroud, so impressive since arriving from Arsenal in January, offered a focal point to exploit.
"I put fake fireplaces in," he said, because "it adds an architectural focal point to the room".
And in Flintoff they had a talisman to provide the sort of focal point to their efforts supplied once by Ian Botham and then Darren Gough.
The ODI will be designed around the power of the network effect and will be a focal point to convene, link, integrate and carry out Open Data exploitation.
The idea, Mr. Beatty said, was for the set to move the way a movie camera pans over a scene, seamlessly from one focal point to another.
It also, crucially, takes the pressure off Sánchez, who Wenger wants to play as a central focal point to the attack.
The tax on water symbolizes this is not happening and acts as a concrete focal point to excite a broader anti-austerity movement.
They had lacked a cutting edge until McArthur forced them ahead, with Christian Benteke unused on the bench – and no focal point to their front line.
Defenders of the Canary Wharf tower point out that it has added a welcome focal point to scores of London's views.
Do this over and over all around the frame - the picture readjusts on the fly, smoothly moving from one focal point to another.
