The phrase "issues of focus" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to refer to the topics or topics of interest or attention that someone is focusing on. For example, "We discussed the various issues of focus for this project."
This may explain why, as of this writing, Senator McCain's official web site does not name trade as one of the 15 issues "of focus".
So, books, I guess they deal with similar issues of focus and expression; a writer must consider which character he will tell what through and what the distance will be.
Studies vary on issues of focus, specific costs and methods.
As the case studies were very diverse in terms of the issues of focus and methodological approaches, their findings were reviewed using two conceptual frameworks as a means of achieving some coherence.
We noted the ATM issues of focus for the articles: affordability (25, 17%), financing (18, 12%), rational use (106, 70%), and health system and availability (63, 42%; table 1).
A particular issue of focus has been the attempted procurement by Iraq of high strength aluminum tubes, and the question of whether these tubes, if acquired, could be used for the manufacture of nuclear centrifuges.
It is politically convenient for some to hijack religion in order to make abortion rights an issue of focus and there is no doubt that among those condemning Notre Dame for inviting President Obama are those who aren't even Catholic.
And then there is the issue of focus.
Maybe we can get riled up about the issue that is big news in New York -- bake sales (which should really not be the issue of focus in a broader attempt to improve NY school nutrition).
To minimize this we were careful to explain that the examples being offered were intended only to ensure that participants had a common and minimal understanding of the issue of focus.
b) Select a sub-group of schools for particular and comprehensive action on issues of inclusion, focusing of children at risk from marginalization both within the school and in being excluded from it.
