Confusing ends and means is dangerous because by focusing on the tactic, we risk floundering among the terrorist trees, while missing the growth of the extremist forest,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

Why,when dealing with harmony and bass lines, do I want to start by focusing on popular music and then apply those principles to classical music?

为什么在处理和音和低音线时，我是否需要注重流行音乐然后将这些原则应用到古典乐上？

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

We solved that by focusing a great deal on motivating the students. Why?

我们通过激发学生,解决该问题，为什么呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

In addition, Islamic finance differs from conventional Western methods by focusing on profit-sharing, with wealth generated through trade and investment in assets, such as property or commodities.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

Next time reread for the third time - you will be repaid by your dedication - Books One and Two, this time focusing on the similes. Also, as I mentioned at the beginning of class, read the essays by Stanley Fish and Geoffrey Hartman.

下次再把这两册书读一遍,你们的付出终将得到回报,第一二册书，这次的重点在明喻上，同时，正如我在课的一开始提到的，看斯坦利·费什和杰弗里·哈特曼写的文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Earlier this month, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced a new strategy to confront the causes of violence in the North Caucasus by focusing on efforts to improve economic conditions in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Opposition Republicans responded to the latest figures by focusing on specific sectors that continue to lag and renewing their assertions that steps President Obama has taken since he came to office, such as the $787 billion stimulus, have had little impact on the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Analysts say that Republicans have had some success in raising doubts about the Obama health care initiative by focusing on the impact of the plan on the growing federal budget deficit and by raising the specter of too much government interference in the health care sector.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

focusing on countries where mobile phone use is skyrocketing and where clinics and hospitals are not encumbered by entrenched systems and procedures.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

He says his decision was guided in large part by new intelligence that shows Iran is focusing on the development of medium and short-range missiles.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

And also people will be focusing on some of the comments made by his officials before they went to Moscow when they said that missile defense would not be traded away,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

I also wonder whether if it's a good way of focusing the world's attention on the issue of blood diamonds and on this very important trial by getting such a high-profile figure involved with it."

VOA: standard.2010.08.05