"former focusing" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are trying to describe a situation or event in which a person, entity, or group is paying more attention to things that already happened in the past instead of looking to the future and potential changes that could be made going forward. For example, "The company has been engaging in former focusing, focusing more on past successes than any future opportunities."
Programmes like Educate and Celebrate do this through "usualising" and "actualising", with the former focusing on acclimatising students and teachers, removing the threat of difference and making references to anything LGBT into an everyday occurrence - and the latter exposing students to more in-depth learning and specific lessons devoted to examining LGBT issues.
For example, Walsall and Bromley exhibited similar behaviour in 1998/99, but followed different tactics in 2004/05 with the former focusing on long waiters and the latter on handling quickly the short waiters.
Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff's (2000) Triple Helix model links institutional and evolutionary explanations of innovation, the former focusing on the configuration of university, industry, and government networks, the latter emphasizing selection preferences.
This, Ast thought, was possible through the combination of a synthetic and an analytic approach, the former focusing on the whole, the latter on the particular parts of which this whole consists.
"Women We Love" aims at the former, focusing on naked pictures of improbably shaped, unattainable movie stars who play dumb for our satisfaction.
Overall, these data suggest that the human-derived strains from clades II and VI differentially exploit the functionality of the pdu– cbi – hem – cob cluster, with the former focusing this cluster on energy gain whereas the latter produces more reuterin.
The former focuses frustration on the powerful, the latter on the powerless.
ICE and NYSE Euronext have little overlap: the former focuses on the trading of commodities like energy products, the latter on stocks and derivatives.
The former focused in on the very big face of Lee Konitz, the latter offered a truly terrifying photo of British eminence John Surman.
The former focuses on tandoor-cooked dishes, dairy products, dal, pulses, parathas and vegetables; the latter on subtle flavours, rice, fantastic desserts and plenty of freshwater fish.
The Burden of Proof (1990; television film 1992) and Pleading Guilty (1993; television film 2010) continue in the vein of legal drama, although the former focuses more on the domestic troubles of its protagonist.
