Sentence examples for has held focus from inspiring English sources

It has held focus groups with blacks and Hispanics to find out why they stay away.

LISA GUERNSEY Correction: January 20 , 2004 Tuesday An article in the special Education Life section on Sunday about dormitories for upperclassmen misstated the affiliation of Robert Stickney, a consultant who has held focus groups with students.

"You'd have to be anesthetized to be complacent, really, and not only because of economic circumstances," said Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster who lately has held focus groups of swing voters for an independent group working for Mr. Obama's re-election.

Sharon Bailey, program director of the National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution in Philadelphia, has held focus groups around the country over the last two years to develop programs for African-Americans, and she plans to hold similar groups for Latinos and American Indians.

So far the Benghazi Select Committee, led by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C ., has held one heaR-S.C .cusing on thasissue of securing diplomatic facilities.

Since April 1999, the group has held nearly 30 conferences nationwide focusing on ethical leadership.

Mr. King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has held a series of hearings focusing exclusively on the threat from Muslim extremists, drawing fire from Muslim groups.

But one of Schumpeter's fundamental insights has held up well: conventional policies focusing on short-run efficiency may not be desirable, once one takes a long-run innovation/learning perspective.

Mr. Ballou, who has held his position for a year, focuses on a "restorative justice" approach to rehabilitation.

Forty years on, the Nutcrackers have become eminences: Andriessen is the most influential of Dutch composers, and de Leeuw, who has focussed on conducting, has held posts from Tanglewood to Sydney.

In his new role as chief executive of G.M. as well as chairman, a post he has held since July, Mr. Whitacre is focusing on shaking up the automaker's famously bureaucratic culture by singling out individuals and giving them both the responsibility and authority to make things happen.