This passage is the flowering of a focus on relationships with the land that pervades the entire Hebrew Bible.
In a healthy relationship, both partners have individual goals and work to get them to align; in a parasitic relationship, one person's goals become the focus of the relationship.
Though Deborah herself was writing poetry at the time, Ian was very much the focus of the relationship.
Somewhere inside we do care and respect and look out for one another, but these days the focus of our relationship is our children.
Yelling at me was never the focus of my relationship with my parents, it was part of the process.
"But with a growing middle class and strong GDP growth, Pena Nieto has an opportunity to expand the focus of the relationship beyond security to include immigration, trade and economic issues — to the benefit of both nations".
Glutamate acts via different receptor types, but so far the main focus of the relationship between glutamate and schizophrenia has been on the NMDA receptor.
They may be the focus of a potentially relationship-busting international dispute, but boredom is likely to be the worst thing that the 24 crew members of a crippled American surveillance aircraft are facing here in Chinese detention.
Our aim is for ancient theatres to be in the focus of two historical relationships: society on one hand and tourism, economy, environment and culture, on the other.
But I also got into the French Laundry in another sense altogether, one that had to do with Mr. Keller's intensity of focus, his relationship to the market, to techniques of cooking, serving, sanitation, management and also, ultimately, to finesse.
Speculation has focused on some type of relationship between the two that will allow back-end technology sharing as well as customer referrals.
