Each one of these is, by its nature, a focal point or a point of natural congestion.

From the moment of the occupation Lublin became a focal point.

An Advisory Council of outstanding public figures with experience in world affairs should be formed to give the program continuing guidance and to afford a focal point for public understanding.

Its folklore and legend, usually disguised as history, are allowed to account for group actions, to provide a focal point for group loyalty, and to become a cohesive force for national identification.

Afghanistan has been an ancient focal point of the Silk Road and human migration.

The formal study of architecture in academic institutions played a pivotal role in the development of the profession as a whole, serving as a focal point for advances in architectural technology and theory.

While Renaissance artists sought nature to find their style, the Mannerists looked first for a style and found a manner. In Mannerist paintings, compositions can have no focal point, space can be ambiguous, figures can be characterized by an athletic bending and twisting with distortions, exaggerations, an elastic elongation of the limbs, bizarre posturing on one hand, graceful posturing on the other hand, and a rendering of the heads as uniformly small and oval.

Woolfson came up with the idea of making an album based on developments in the film industry, where directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were the focal point of the film's promotion, rather than individual film stars.

On 4 March 2008, in announcing a partnership with Magna Steyr to outsource manufacture of over 2, 000 cars annually at Graz, Austria, the company stated " The continuing growth and success of the company is based upon Gaydon as the focal point and heart of the business, with the design and engineering of all Aston Martin products continuing to be carried out there.

He feared the presence of prominent Umayyad exiles in Ifriqiya, a family more illustrious than his own, might become a focal point for intrigue among local nobles against his own usurped powers.

Naming the central ray passing through the entrance pupil the axis of the pencil or principal ray, it can be said: the rays of the pencil intersect, not in one point, but in two focal lines, which can be assumed to be at right angles to the principal ray ; of these, one lies in the plane containing the principal ray and the axis of the system, i. e. in the first principal section or meridional section, and the other at right angles to it, i. e. in the second principal section or sagittal section.

Two astigmatic image surfaces correspond to one object plane ; and these are in contact at the axis point ; on the one lie the focal lines of the first kind, on the other those of the second.

By 1900 the advertising agency had become the focal point of creative planning, and advertising was firmly established as a profession.

The question eventually became the focal point for a philosophical issue ( the theory of possible worlds ) and a theological topic on the distinction between God's absolute power ( potentia absoluta ) and His ordained power ( potentia ordinata ).

Located in São José dos Campos, the CTA became the focal point for the arms industry.

Finally the structure portrays the trial faced by the Anointed One as the focal point of the book ( D ).

The Germans referred to a Schwerpunkt ( focal point and also known as Schwerpunktprinzip or concentration principle ) in the planning of operations ; it was a center of gravity or point of maximum effort, where a decisive action could be achieved.

They would support the focal point of attack from the air.

In that period, Berkeley — especially Telegraph Avenue — became a focal point for the hippie movement, which spilled over the Bay from San Francisco.

Basel became the focal point of western Christendom during the 15th century Council of Basel ( 1431 – 1449 ), including the 1439 election of antipope Felix V.

The Sydney waterfront, focal point of the largest population centre on Cape Breton Island.

Whereas consequentialist theories posit that consequences of action should be the primary focus of our thinking about ethics, virtue ethics insists that it is the character rather than the consequences of actions that should be the focal point.

A focal point of the river port is the industrial park on President's Island, just south of Downtown Memphis.

Boasting numerous hiking and walking trails, as well as scenic overlooks and waterfalls, the park is one of the focal points of Shenandoah Valley tourism.

The landscape is especially beautiful during the fall, and the focal overlooking hill, the Salem Knob ( historically a public park, now privately owned ) and surrounding area offers many photographic opportunities.

The town hopes the park will become the " focal point " of the hamlet.

The Barnwell sundial was surrounded by a parking lot in the 1960s but in the 1990s the city removed the parking lot, built a park, and made the sundial a focal point.

The memorial is a triangular piece of land falling away on the two sides of the park, and its focal point is a circular pathway mosaic of inlaid stones, with a single word, the title of Lennon's famous song: " Imagine ".

The business park has attracted a number of businesses to the area with the basepoint Newhaven Enterprise Centre being the focal point.

It is also the focal point to watch the eagles which have been placed in the park to be freed when they are able to adjust to the environment.

The focal point of the park is a band shell and pavilion built in 1888.

The focal points of the national park are Nkasa and Lupala, two large islands in the Kwando / Linyati river.

In its prime the park boasted an ornate bandstand, a paddling-pool, putting-course and swing-park, and was a focal point for various leisure pursuits, and the venue for the annual " Store " ( Co-operative Society ) treat.

Also, plans are being carried out to convert the Blanche Brook " Flood Zone " in the center of town into a green space and central park facility which will become the focal point for future community celebrations.

It is of modest size, but elevated to command views southwards over the park, and provides a focal point to Thomas Nicholson's designed landscape.

The North campus overlooks Van Cortlandt park, and has as its focal point " the Quad ", which sits at the center of the campus four main buildings.

Today the park is still thriving, used by many thousands of people annually, and remains a focal point for the people of the South Side of Glasgow, and beyond.

Greenbank Park is a public park in Liverpool, England, with a focal point of an elegant, placid lake.

The lake provides the focal point within the park.

It was formerly a hilly region and hence the focal point of orientation of the town is the special landscaped park and sports complex built on the higher ground of the town.

In addition to the of office space, of retail space and 1, 030 basement car-parking bays in the project at completion, the site also includes a landscaped park, which leads towards the intended focal point of the precinct, the restored Wesley Church on the opposite side of Hay Street.

The park was officially renamed Rizal Park in his honor and his monument serves as the symbolic focal point of the park.

Main Street Garden Park is a new focal park of the district's east end.

Retail stores will account for over 150, 000 sq ft. An Austin Memorial Centre, The River Rea being bought back to the surface as a focal point in the centre of a newly formed 2 acre park called Austin Park, surrounded by the Bournville College campus and the new retail outlets and supermarket.

Its focal points are three pools of water and a terraced knoll, which helps to shield the park from adjacent Interstate 30.