A hard-earned if not totally convincing win meant that the focus of proceedings was firmly fixed on football.
From time to time he would interrupt his focus on the proceedings and look through the glass into the gallery, his eyes going from one person to another as if looking for a particular individual.
As they traded ground strokes in the sunshine, five men dressed in white were standing around the court with their arms folded, intently focused on the proceedings.
His thesis is that the money should go to frontline legal services, ignoring the reality that acting for the disadvantaged is not entirely focused on court proceedings, but entails frequent representations to government agencies and ministers.
It is precisely in a case such as this, where the Constitution specifically delegates authority to the states, -- and where the attention of the nation is focused on the proceedings -- that this court's obligation is at its peak to preserve the principles of federalism that it has articulated and enforced.
In addition to improved customer service, the agency has focused on disciplinary proceedings against the employees involved in the healthcare scandal.
Despite many Cambodian New Yorkers' connection to the tragedy, the diaspora here isn't too focused on the proceedings in their home country.
His focus on the legal proceedings highlights the vagaries of whistle-blowing and the complexities of pursuing a case against a well-heeled corporate criminal with connections to large Washington law firms, high-placed politicians and influential media resources.
From then on, it was rapidly downhill for Rangers, even if their focus when looking back on proceedings will probably not wander too much from the interventions of the Swedish referee Jonas Eriksson.
The jury trial in his contentious child custody battled kicked off Tuesday, with his ex-wife's lawyers hoping to focus the proceedings on the outrageous claims, spiteful comments and public drunkenness they say he displays on air.
