* The myth of Philoctetes is the inspiration for William Wordsworth's sonnet " When Philoctetes in the Lemnian Isle ," though here the thematic focus is not the Greek warrior's magical bow or gruesome injury, but his abandonment.

According to Nate Silver, the advent of this playoff series, and especially of the wild card, has caused teams to focus more on " getting to the playoffs " rather than " winning the pennant " as the primary goal of the regular season.

The dramatic focus of the painting, portraying his entire family, is dispersed in a series of separate and disconnected figures of sorrow.

The Explorer program was transferred to NASA, which continued to use the name for an ongoing series of relatively small space missions, typically an artificial satellite with a science focus.

The first 47 plates in the series focus on incidents from the war and show the consequences of the conflict on individual soldiers and civilians.

Later, in bebop the focus shifted back towards small groups and minimal arrangements ; the melody ( known as the " head ") would be stated briefly at the start and end of a piece but the core of the performance would be the series of improvisations.

This series of texts was quickly followed by the Post-Vulgate Cycle ( c. 1230 – 40 ), of which the Suite du Merlin is a part, which greatly reduced the importance of Lancelot's affair with Guinevere but continued to sideline Arthur, now in order to focus more on the Grail quest.

( This should not be confused with the autofocus assist beam, which uses a series of flashes for focus instead.

Several attempts to revamp the series through cast changes and, later, expanding the focus from the motel to the surrounding community were unsuccessful.

Similarly, Michael Richards was the focus of a series of advertisements for Vodafone which ran in Australia where he dressed and behaved exactly like Kramer, including the trademark bumbling pratfalls.

The youth poetry slam movement will be the focus of a documentary film series produced by HBO and released in 2009.

Macnee was promoted to star and Steed became the focus of the series, initially working with a rotation of three different partners.

By the time the series ended in 1927, its focus was more on the animated characters and in particular a cat named Julius who resembled Felix the Cat, rather than the live-action Alice.

* Grand strategy — military strategy at the level of movement and use of an entire state or empire's resources, with the focus being on a war ( or series of wars ) usually over a long period of time.

With this acquisition, Ritual's focus on traditional action-oriented games was changed to casual games, essentially " stalling " Ritual's latest game series, SiN Episodes, after releasing only one episode out of a planned nine.

The focus of the Myth series ' solo campaigns is on a smaller force outmaneuvering and outthinking a much larger enemy force.

Although the novel's fantasy elements ( voodoo and black magic, tarot readings and precognition, ghosts and mysticism ) are secondary to the brutal murder that is the focus of the plot, it is set in the same milieu as Asprin's Griffen McCandles novels ( Dragons series ), Dragons Luck and Dragons Wild.

Following the failed Nanchang and Autumn Harvest Uprisings of 1927, the Communists began to focus on establishing a series of rural bases of operation in southern China.

Michael A. Stackpole's and Aaron Allston's X-wing books and several Dark Horse Comics series focus on Antilles and the rest of Rogue Squadron after the events depicted in the films.

The 13-year-old incarnation played by Phoenix in the film was the focus of a Young Indiana Jones series of young adult novels that began in 1990 ; by the ninth novel, the series had become a tie-in to the television show.

Most of the various series focus on Tom's inventions, a number of which anticipated actual inventions.

Both series were immediate financial successes, prompting the Syndicate's continuing focus on children's mysteries.

The United Federation of Planets has existed as part of the Star Trek universe since the first season of the original series and is the primary focus of all the Star Trek series, with the exception of Star Trek: Enterprise, which is set before the Federation comes into existence.

This is not the most general situation of a Cartesian product of a family of sets, where a same set can occur more than once as a factor ; however, one can focus on elements of such a product that select the same element every time a given set appears as factor, and such elements correspond to an element of the Cartesian product of all distinct sets in the family.

* The Ark of the Covenant is the main focus of Steven Spielberg's 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the same prop also appears in a cameo in a later sequel in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

" The focus of Commodus ' education appears to have been intellectual, possibly at the expense of military training.

A Venus Aerobot Technology Experiment ( VEBTEX ) has been considered as a technology validation experiment, but the focus appears to have been more on full operational missions.

Little information about the reign of Osiris appears in Egyptian sources ; the focus is on his death and the events that follow.

The idea is based on simple principles of projective geometry: moving synchronously and in opposite directions the X-ray tube and the film, which are connected together by a rod whose pivot point is the focus ; the image created by the points on the focal plane appears sharper, while the images of the other points annihilate as noise.

While the focus of this entry currently stresses the depiction of the Madonna in panel painting, it should be noted that her image also appears in mural decoration, whether mosaics or fresco painting on the exteriors and interior of sacred buildings.

A focus on creative product usually appears in attempts to measure creativity ( psychometrics, see below ) and in creative ideas framed as successful memes.

Though Theodore I Laskaris could not oppose this later campaign, it appears that Henry decided it best to focus on his European problems, for he sought a truce with Theodore I in 1214, and amicably divided Latin from Nicean possessions to the favour of Nicea.

There is a splash of red which at first glance appears to be blood, but which turns out to be yet another poppy out of focus in the foreground.

After the 7 July 2005 London bombings, Friedman called for the U. S. State Department to " shine a spotlight on hate speech wherever it appears ," to create a quarterly " War of Ideas Report, which would focus on those religious leaders and writers who are inciting violence against others.

The focus upon the gap between the premises and conclusion present in the above passage appears different from Hume's focus upon the circular reasoning of induction.

The focus of intelligence agencies appears to be moving slowly from managing internal dissent to focusing on external threats and support of the nation's democracy.

Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus ( some more so than others ), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white ( ranging from warm brown to deep blue ) and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface.

* Koschei appears as the focus of the song Unavenged by Random Encounter

The decoration, which appears to have been very similar on all sides of the shrine, features Akhenaten and Tiye making offerings to the Aten, with a focus on the king rather than his mother.

* Depth of field, in photography, the distance in front of and beyond the subject that appears to be in focus

The motto which appears on most current University of Bradford publications is Making Knowledge Work, which relates to the institution's focus on courses that lead to employment.

Her approach to teaching appears to be to trust the folk wisdom of the locals when it comes to practical things like birthing and medicine, and focus on such things as crystals, magic circles and soothing chants to help matters along.

The developers considered one particular scene in which effects are used well: When Max has lucid dreams, the screen appears fuzzy and out of focus.

The regulation appears among a brief miscellany of regulations concerning ethical behaviour, covering issues such as consideration of the deaf, an " evil tongue ", not bearing grudges, the impartiality of justice, and leaving gleanings for the poor demonstrate similar concerns against exploiting individuals, but focus on different issues.

It appears to focus on the content of what is said and not on how it is said.

This day's focus will be Travel, a feature that currently appears in Saturday's main news section.