This rearrangement was first thought to be random, but it is now clear that it is locus-specific, that it is effected by biological mechanisms, and that these mechanisms are guided to their places of action by DNA sequences [ 123- 125].
It is the locus of salvation, which is why Jesus' physical resurrection matters so much.
These days, however, it is the locus of a different tragedy.
It is the locus, somehow, of what art is supposed to be.
As the American critic Brian O'Doherty once put it, it is "the locus of power struggles conducted through farce, comedy, irony, transcendence, and of course, commerce".
It is a locus for original shops, like Renga Arts, which sells gifts and accessories made from reclaimed materials.
It is the locus of power in Iraq and the place where President Saddam Hussein seems determined to make his final stand.
Another definition of an ellipse is that it is the locus of points for which the sum of their distances from two fixed points (the foci) is constant.
California should be a leader, perhaps by a wide margin — it has a significant solar industry, longstanding environmental regulation, and it is the locus of about half the country's venture capital investment, which these days is moving into all things green.
Harry G. Frankfurt wrote a great essay on the concept of "bullshit," explaining that it is the locus of truth and and falsehood, the "deliberate making of false claims about what is true".
Arendt's exploration of it is the locus of the conundrums in her thinking on evil in the era of Nazism.
