Sentence examples for was firmly focused from inspiring English sources

The Democratic convention was based here in the state capital, but the attention of the 11,500 Democrats who assembled in the Pepsi Arena, among them the president of the United States, was firmly focused on New York's City Hall.

"For many clergy, their vocational understanding was firmly focused on a pastoral ministry that found its fullest expression in the exercise of liturgical duties, prayer, preaching and pastoral ministry … intentional outreach was of relatively less importance," the report says.

(While the attention of the police was firmly focused on peaceful protesters, a small group of ultra-nationalists were allowed to walk almost unhindered, attacking journalists and passers-by).

The American pursuit of Bin Laden was running high: Qaeda operatives had attacked an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya and nightclubs in Indonesia, and with C.I.A. intelligence resources not yet diverted to Iraq, the search was firmly focused on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area.

Instead, his attention was firmly focused on whether or not American footballers knelt or stood during the national anthem.

In Reagan's day, American business was firmly focused on doing business in America, still fairly oblivious to the growth available in the foreign markets.

It is firmly focused on achieving Premier League football.

With neither Pietersen nor Flower present it seems likely attention will still be firmly focused elsewhere.

In the end they're firmly focused on making a profit for themselves and their shareholders.

Grandage, however, has no time for nostalgia and is firmly focused on the "next thing".

The technology which powers it all is firmly focused on performance.