Phyllida Lloyd, whose current all-female Julius Caesar at the Donmar has provided a focus for recent debate, is clear: "If I were running the RSC, I would make it 50% male and 50% female actors – and then I would work out how to do the plays," she says.
Jaffna's history of being an independent kingdom lends legitimacy to the political claims of the Sri Lankan Tamils, and has provided a focus for their constitutional demands.
Then there's Bush, whose election "has provided a focus, a convenient enemy" for advocates of the arms-control and global-warming treaties that the president opposes, Barker said.
It has provided a focus for research in sight loss and vision and it is intended that these priorities are used to inform funders, researchers, clinicians and the public.
For example, Abdullah et al. (2) and Abdullah and Das (1) have focused on high-density bone cell populations, whereas hepatocyte culture has provided a focus for bioartificial liver development through studies such as Hay et al. (14), Kawazoe et al. (16), Nyberg et al. (24), Patzer (27), Sielaff et al. (33), Sullivan et al. (35), and Wurm et al. (40).
To date, no study has provided a focused synthesis of the effects of GHIs on national and subnational health systems across multiple countries.
For some, the Regents tests have provided a clear focus for their academic efforts.
The strategies they have developed with the data tools have provided a systematic focus to their efforts, which appears to be paying off in substantially improved ninth-grade achievement.
Studies of endometrial stem cells have provided a new focus for endometriosis research.
