Sentence examples for focus of great from inspiring English sources
"THAT city will, in the course of time, become the granary of the world, the emporium of commerce, the seat of manufactures, the focus of great monied operations," predicted DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York in 1824.
While its traffic methods became the focus of great skepticism and outright derision, at the same time it helped create the more or less dubious models that almost all traffic aggregators have used since.
In reality, there was no abnormal focus or concentration on any aspect of sensual gratification, a situation in contrast to that seen in many other cultures where, for example, eating, drinking, or sex has become the focus of great cultural elaboration.
Now out of work and reported to be selling his house to meet his legal costs and his children's school fees, Mr. Coulson is the focus of great interest and speculation over whether he might have a store of insider information about the prime minister's links to the Murdochs.
Nanotechnology-based nanomedicine has been the focus of great attention in the past couple of decades.
Geological materials usually contaminated with naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) have become a focus of great attention.
But a senior Congressional official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said "the P.D.B's have become a focus of greater interest on our part".
The confusion also underscored again that this measure has been the focus of greater partisan rancor than any major U.S. legislation in recent memory.
Ward will find himself the focus of greater attention than usual following his efforts at Queen's, with a Wimbledon wildcard giving him the opportunity to make another mark.
If so many people are hip into the new wares for 2010, why does the focus of "Greatest gadgets for 2010" keep wandering?
