Sentence examples for focal points around from inspiring English sources

During the middle ages, fortified seigneurial residences were the focal points around which towns and villages grew.

"One of the focal points around which we came together was trying to figure out how we found ourselves in a country that was so closed into itself and self-obsessed," said Ms. Curlin.

Greg Barrow, a spokesman for the World Food Program, said the agency -- an arm of the United Nations -- wanted "a formal system in place" to ensure security arrangements for the distribution of food from four "hubs" in Port-au-Prince, the capital, and 40 more such focal points around Haiti.

Furthermore, cultivating shared interests and sentiments provides networks of focal points around which coordination can be increasingly facilitated.

Plans to improve visitors' first impressions of Oldham with "new focal points" around the town's forthcoming tram stops have been approved.

Unlike chemical entities, it is not absolutely crucial that descriptors have canonical and reproducible names, as they are rarely used as focal points around which other annotations are integrated.

We use trees as a focal point around which other environmental issues are brought to attention.

The idea is simple: each must be community-based so they not only improve the environment, but also provide a focal point around which people can gather and unite.

It is on occasions such as these that sport comes into its own, providing a focal point around which we might gather to demonstrate a spirit that will not be cowed by the violence of the thug.

He noted that while black churches had remained a strong focal point around which people collected and found spaces and support, white communities were now less likely to engage in the same way with the institutions, such as unions or political parties, around which they had traditionally gathered.

Google's artificial camera smarts seem to identify a central focal point around which it centers the view, but if you move the camera around, it shifts that focal center somewhat abruptly, leading to a kind of staccato effect of punctuated panning as you point the device at different places.