No Child Left Behind has been derided for its narrow focus, for its harsh consequences, for its rankings of schools as passing or failing a certain benchmark.
Positive morality tends to be associated with traditional power and following ancient principles with a narrow focus; for example, the norms and taboos of marital law.
This nicely complemented the otherwise too narrow focus for such a medium-sized international conference.
Donors, however, tend to require a more narrow focus for their investments.
There have been a wide range of systematic reviews of interventions in this area that have had a narrow focus, for instance, on only one approach such as pedometer provision, 17 one mode of delivery such as telephone-based 18 or mobile technology, 19 or community-based approaches only.
However, the influence of AI in the coming decade may imply an expansion beyond the "narrow" focuses that it's best known for (i.e., analyzing images, beating silly humans at chess, etc)., and some of the AI experts I've interviewed seem to think that people are becoming comfortable handing over that control.
Mr Cameron can hang a bauble on Mr Crosby's name for proposing narrow, focused, short-term policies that helped him to win a second term in office, even if we should not underestimate the contribution that the opposition parties made to his victory.
The narrow focus on obesity for government, for campaigners and for individuals needs to change, and if we just can't quite get over our obsession, at least stepping on and off the scales still counts as activity if you do it enough.
The protesters' initial narrow focus on accountability for war crimes soon gave way to calls for the banning of Jamaat, along with its influential banks, businesses and social institutions.
The implications of this argument go far beyond questions of semantics; the over-application of the MDD-model to the problem of distress in people with diabetes has also led to a narrow focus on treatments for clinical depression that may not be appropriate for the majority of distressed patients.
Soundings of public opinion for a follow-up dialogue to be launched next January, "Higher Education and the Changing World of Work," also surface wide discontent with an overly narrow focus on "education for jobs" and making a lot of money as the highest goals of education.
