Sentence examples for managed to concentrate from inspiring English sources

In the ensuing struggle for power, Gamaliel managed to concentrate all communal authority in his office.

But in Romania, grassroots efforts have managed to concentrate popular dissatisfaction with failures to take responsibility for public life.

Of all Bradley's work in Cairo, and in the foreign places where he had managed to concentrate his team and unite them in his way of playing, the reintegration of Aboutrika will one day make an incredible, almost implausible, story.

And its notion of "aid" has been broadened, as senior departments such as foreign affairs and defence have made demands on the aid budget to pay, for instance, for clearing landmines or supporting ex-communist countries "in transition".Nor has CIDA managed to concentrate its aid effectively on a few countries.

We do not know exactly what numbers and equipment the rebels have managed to concentrate in Donetsk.

Against a backdrop of continuing off-field headlines over who may or may not be buying into the financially-stricken outfit, the Rangers players managed to concentrate on the job in hand.

At work I manage to concentrate on other wordsmith tasks related to my editing job, but sometimes a particularly knotty clue will follow me around all day like the Cheshire cat, gleefully elusive.

Even Châteauneufs that I've had from 2003, the heat-wave year in Europe, managed to balance concentrated fruit flavors with the sort of earthy, herbal, leather and tobacco character that I have always enjoyed in Châteauneuf.

In this volume Mr. King — the author of earlier books like "Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power" and "Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling"— gives us a gripping account of how that painting was created and how it represents, in his view, one of the few times in Leonardo's life that he managed to "harness and concentrate his relentless energies and restless obsessions".

Phil Cohen, 54, will step down as managing partner to concentrate on account and strategic management for clients like Bombadier and Prestige Brands.

It was hard for everyone to concentrate, but one student managed to fall asleep in class anyway.