What's left of the city appears nondescript and soulless, without any apparent centre or focal point. |
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The simplicity of the original Doric baseless column even became the focal point in any discussion on the excellence of Greek art. |
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In the early twentieth century, the focal point of social interaction was the local market town. |
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The arch soon became a focal point of Washington Square and a subject for artists working in all mediums. |
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Her entire focus was concentrated on the small object which rested at the exact center of the room, her one and only focal point. |
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Five used climbing equipment to scale the 120 ft dome, a focal point of the beachside plant, which covers the pressurised water reactor. |
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Once the focal point of every community, rural post office owners are now finding that their days are numbered. |
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Early in the season, when a lot of bare earth is still visible, the brickwork become the focal point of the garden. |
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Educating the customer will take the form of regular truffle tastings and positioning the truffle case as a strong focal point in each store. |
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Your focal point is visually eye-level, straight ahead in the depth of the room, or the opposite wall. |
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Very modern in appearance, these bedding choices make the modern bedroom's focal point the bed. |
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At this point, the focal point of the crowd rested on the door as everyone made a beeline for outside. |
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The intimate lighting and varnished black sleepers sit easily with a heart-warming pot bellied stove which is an excellent focal point. |
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They were all or nothing, the focal point of the whole three years of study. |
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Norms can also impart a sense of identity and shared values which can provide a focal point to energize and revitalize the group. |
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In each case, she wears a belted black coat, and her garish spiky hair is the focal point. |
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She shook the cloth from her forehead and turned her attention to the flame again, using it as a focal point, instead of the darkness all around. |
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These marae are community focused and they provide a focal point for community action. |
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Accommodative effort and retinal blur can be minimised by bifocal glasses, which change the focal point for near work. |
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It's the home of The Bandwagon, a night that has become a focal point for a new wave of Liverpool groups. |
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The hotel has always been and will continue to be the central focal point in Robertstown. |
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They may serve either as the focal point of a piece of jewelry or as components of the overall design. |
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The festival is a focal point for moral reflection and being especially charitable to others. |
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The plane will be the focal point of a new static aircraft display which is expected to attract thousands of visitors when it opens in May. |
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For three weeks, Meadowlands forms a focal point for soccer lovers across the social spectrum. |
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For they were all eager to be the focal point of unification and centralization. |
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The focal point of the memorial is a circular emblem on the central pillar. |
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The focal point is adjusted for a second different set of wavelengths of light. |
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This spreads the light away from the center of the lens and moves the focal point forward. |
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It is well lit by two large windows and has as its focal point a marble fireplace flanked by built-in shelving units. |
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Works like these are the focal point of a community's spiritual life, prayers, and invocations for ancestral intervention. |
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The focal point in this room is a raised fireplace with whitewashed brick surround. |
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The alternative is to look upon the monarch as a mere figurehead, a focal point for tradition, pomp and ritual on the great occasions of state. |
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The original ornate fireplace with a tiled inset forms the focal point and the window has great views over Sandymount Strand. |
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In the front bedroom, an ornate fireplace with a cast-iron inset and slate hearth forms the focal point. |
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Hardwood flooring lies underfoot and an unusual sandstone fireplace with cast-iron inset forms a focal point. |
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The festa is the most important day in each village, where the church is the focal point of the event. |
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Broad veneered surfaces, often in highly figured woods, displaced carving as the decorative focal point. |
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A cast-iron fireplace with a tiled inset forms the focal point and period features include ceiling coving and a picture rail. |
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A large open fireplace with a marble surround is the focal point of this room, which also features a picture rail and dado rail. |
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The centre is now a focal point for the community and has facilitated the growth of tourism in South Sligo. |
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The immense monoliths centered at the focal point of the photographs signify power and dominance. |
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Then, make it a focal point with potted flowers, lawn ornaments, or themed decorations. |
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He said he hoped his visit would be a focal point for discussion of what the community could do to restore peace. |
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The Middle East, of course, continues to be a focal point of global politics so the movie had a symbolic topicality as well. |
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This expansive yard and storage area will be a focal point for the festival. |
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The focal point of the creation was a 10 ft tall figure which he carried and operated, while walking on stilts. |
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The etagere was the focal point of the parlor and often displayed precious glass, marble, porcelain, and curiosities on its cascading shelves. |
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The centrepiece of the restored park will be a central focal point, where a variety of community events can be held. |
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Make art the focal point of your living room by accenting it with halogen spotlights. |
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The focal point of the water feature is a fountain consisting of thee straight metal tubes. |
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A focal point is the Craftsman-inspired room divider that functions as a bookcase on one side and bench on the other. |
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The 300 year-old half-timbered stilted building in the High Street has been a focal point for the town for many years. |
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Bay is often trained into standards and pyramids and makes a good focal point in a herb garden. |
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Seldom have we seen a crowd as large at that which had gathered at Grattan Square, the focal point of the official reception and welcome. |
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Frankly, it's difficult to envisage him being nearly as influential in any role other than that of the focal point of the attack. |
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The focal point of the block will be elliptical stairwells with glass walls to flood classrooms with natural daylight. |
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The open fire is a focal point around which many yarns are spun and stories told. |
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Since when has religion and one's personal spiritual belief become the focal point of a candidacy? |
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Not only does it serve as a focal point for the community and a place of worship, it also helps keep the local economy moving. |
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Properly placed in a larger room, it can become a room divider screen or simply a focal point. |
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The lens that picks up the light from the focal point is called the eyepiece lens. |
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Mountains are a focal point of the scenery, of course, and a line of Munros divides Glen Etive from Glen Kinglass. |
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They were also the focal point of the community, bringing people together to form new social groupings. |
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A new ornamental pond provides a focal point for both the main and ground levels. |
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A cast-iron open fireplace with a pale grey marble mantel provides a focal point. |
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The seven deck high atrium acts as the internal focal point leading to the glitzily decorated public rooms and facilities. |
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The altar's focal point on Sivaratri is the lingam, Lord Siva represented as a simple rounded stone. |
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The three remaining bedrooms are upstairs, the master having been lent a Moroccan, ornamental feel with an arched window as the focal point. |
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The ideal meal for this would be a nice Mexican carne asada, or other spicy beef dish where the meat was the focal point. |
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These areas have become known as the focal point for the prosperous and wealthy, due to the services on offer such as schools, shops and delis. |
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The programmes look in detail at the story behind this famous race, with York as a focal point. |
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As their blooms begin to fade, attention is drawn to the daisy-like flowers of my rudbeckia, which then becomes the predominant focal point. |
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A large brick fireplace, which is fitted with a coal-effect gas fire and back boiler, provides a focal point. |
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The school chapel became the focal point of life, discipline was enforced through prefects and team games emphasized. |
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However, if sentient aliens are part of His Creation, then mankind cannot be the focal point of His created universe. |
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A landmark cultural building, either a theatre or an opera house, according to Coyne, will act as a focal point for the area. |
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The main reason why these mash-ups work in the first place, though, is that they aren't the focal point of the mix. |
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It seems the car park has become something of a focal point for young people to meet and play music from car stereos. |
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Aleppo remains a focal point, as both sides appear to be locked down for a bitter fight. |
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He is miffed at not being more of a focal point in the offense. |
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Corrective lenses, then, are prescribed to correct for aberrations, to adjust the focal point onto the retina or to compensate for other abnormalities. |
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The focal point of the park is the now defunct fountain, surrounded by conifers, oaks, planes, jacarandas, and tipiana trees dropping their yellow blossoms. |
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The garda station adjoins the former mill site, which is the focal point of the Council's development and which they bought from Flahavan's last year. |
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Eric was the lead singer and the main focal point of the band. |
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For us it was clear that China should be the focal point for a documentary on the subject of Internet addiction. |
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From Sally Draper to Arya Stark, teenage girls provide a focal point within the prestige television narrative. |
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In 1981, Juan Carlos was the focal point of resistance to an attempted military coup. |
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Operating as an independent legal entity, the gfe would act as the focal point for a renewal of the global education compact. |
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First, a single square in the grid is chosen to serve as the focal point. |
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Susan likes to cook, so the kitchen is a focal point in the house, with a warm colour scheme of Burmese ruby combined with honey cream to offset the minimalism. |
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The shop and its manageress have been a focal point of the community. |
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So while Boucher's portrait of the marquise at her toilette is to be the focal point of this essay, also of great importance are the cultural debates encompassing it. |
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Perry does the opposite, creating worlds in which white people are disposable, interchangeable, and not the assumed focal point. |
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The yacht basin will form the focal point of the development and will comprise berthing for small craft, a timeshare hotel, a yacht club, shops and kiosks. |
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In biology your focal point would probably be some problem in a subdiscipline such as anatomy, behavioral science, ecology, embryology, genetics, or physiology. |
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The school's bell tower, built around 1914, is a focal point for the town. |
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The focal point is a rocky stream that takes up the lower midsection of the painting, while to the far left one can see a gently curving road, set off by a low fence. |
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Leisure development continues to grow in importance in the retail market, be it as a focal point of new retail projects or in the form of multiplex cinemas and theme parks. |
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Being the only depiction of organized Celtic religion in pre-Roman Europe that historians possess, the Druids have become a modern focal point of popular interest. |
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The focal point of any Middle Eastern city is the souk, or marketplace, a labyrinthine space of alleys, stalls, and tiny shops that also include ancient mosques and shrines. |
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I think it is a great focal point for the culmination of two years of politicking that has brought us to this point. |
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A moral focal point was Glen Echo Park, a wonderful art-deco playland in Maryland along the Potomac. |
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A raised open-grate fireplace with a marble hearth provides a stylish focal point, while French doors lead out to the patio garden and let in plenty of light. |
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He slides back and forth from being the focal point and the straight man. |
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The centre provides a focal point for MS people offering a physiotherapy area, oxygen chamber, private meeting room and relaxing area for coffee mornings. |
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In accordance with Cistercian principles, the spaces of the new abbey are arranged around a cloister with a church as the focal point and heart of the project. |
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A carved Adam-style fireplace with brass inset provides a focal point. |
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In this case, the destructive interference occurs for waves traveling in most directions, but not for those ultimately heading toward the focal point. |
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A simple, elegant arbor is the focal point at one end of the garden. |
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The original white marble fireplace and cast iron hob grate form the focal point in this room, which also has ornate ceiling cornicing, a dado rail and a fitted oak bar. |
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Use patches on garments with simple lines made of solid fabric or subtle prints, letting the patches, rather than the garment, be the focal point. |
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He is an effective focal point for the band of eight men who are deputed to find and rescue the Private after his three brothers have been killed in combat. |
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Moving back and forth over the bridge, the camera will dip wildly and sink if the exact center focal point of the camera is not fixed on the bridge. |
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With Elizabeth dead, ensepulchred in Florence, their son provided the sustaining focal point of his father's remaining twenty-eight years of life. |
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An old Packhorse Bridge, this is a focal point for those approaching from the south, particularly when the Esk is in spate. |
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In her childhood bedroom, which was covered in posters, the focal point was a karaoke machine. |
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In the east, where the mountain scenery is so much more stirring to begin with, Patterdale provides the focal point. |
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Displays are common throughout the world and are the focal point of many cultural and religious celebrations. |
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The coat of arms of the Bahamas contains a shield with the national symbols as its focal point. |
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Social inequality within and between nations, including a growing global digital divide, is a focal point of the movement. |
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The focal point of the battles must have taken place in the area of Roman Dacia. |
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The human brain, the focal point of the central nervous system in humans, controls the peripheral nervous system. |
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The Jersey Society in London, which had been formed in 1896, provided a focal point for exiled Jerseymen. |
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The old city centre is the focal point of all the architectural styles before the end of the 19th century. |
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Also said to have been used as an auxiliary tower with its high up positioning it remains a focal point of history. |
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This is the flag of the Incorporated Trades of Edinburgh, and the focal point of the Riding of the Marches ceremony held in the city each year. |
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However my desire to remain on the bridge has made me a focal point of the debate. |
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Typically the funding source of the research studies is a focal point of controversy. |
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The pub is an important aspect of British culture, and is often the focal point of local communities. |
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The climax of William Shakespeare's play Richard III provides a focal point for critics in later film adaptations. |
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But when the new museum opens in 2007, the coble will become its focal point. |
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Govinda's temple and restaurant, run by the Hare Krishnas in Swansea, is a focal point for many Welsh Hindus. |
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Providing a stunning focal point all year round is the evergreen phormium Platts Black, which grows to about 3ft. |
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They should never stick out like a sore thumb, although they can be a focal point. |
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Log-fuelled chimineas, fireplaces and fire pits are economical to run and will create a cosy atmosphere and a great focal point. |
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The university forms the focal point of the Queen's Quarter area of the city, one of Belfast's four cultural districts. |
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There's even a Mona Lisa on the wall and the focal point bar area is covered in postcards from holidays. |
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But Jonson's career eventually made him a focal point for the revived sociopolitical criticism. |
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An east Palatka holly is the focal point for a planting of ixora bushes surrounded by liriope. |
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A focal point of WPC 2004 will be a session entitled the Voice of the Customer. |
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Dundee became the focal point as it built the ships and there was also a demand for whale oil in the jute factories. |
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Northern England was a focal point for fighting during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. |
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The upper reaches of Dartmoor, especially those on the Dart, are a focal point for whitewater kayakers and canoeists. |
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Frederick's government reorganized itself in a much more hierarchical manner, built around the king as a focal point of administration. |
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Each of the six largest main banks serves as the focal point of a keiretsu network. |
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Lord's Seat is the focal point of the group and sends out a number of additional ridges. |
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Guadalcanal soon became a focal point for both sides with heavy commitments of troops and ships in the battle for Guadalcanal. |
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This is the focal point for connecting ridges to Bannerdale Crags and Mungrisdale Common to the north. |
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Long after the political recovery was done, women were the focal point and symbol of any distrust the British had in India. |
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The city became the destination for Loyalist refugees and a focal point of Washington's intelligence network. |
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The sermon was the focal point of the service and there was no organ music or singing. |
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The camera was focused on the stylet bundle, but the photos varied in the focal point. |
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The Caribbean basin functioned as a key geographic focal point for advancing Spanish imperialism. |
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Common within Australian cinema, the Tasmanian landscape is a focal point in most of their feature film productions. |
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At least two literary critics, Sandra Drake and Thomas Loe, have examined the zombification and subsequent rebellion of Antoinette, the heroine and focal point of the novel. |
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In this sense Bagehot was stating that the sovereign should be a focal point for the nation, while the PM and cabinet actually undertook executive decisions. |
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Virginia was a focal point in conflicts from the French and Indian War, the American Revolution and the Civil War, to the Cold War and the War on Terrorism. |
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The ritual-social drinkfests are the focal point of Tagbanuwa life. |
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Like the pain of migraine, the painof cluster headaches is localized on one side of the head, but the focal point is around the eye or in the temple. |
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Anderson pours coloured acrylic resin into the depressions on her pieces to create a glossy focal point for the sculptures, which she wall-mounts. |
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Leading to the central area of the barn was a massive stone garden urn of sweet gum and water oak branches, which created the focal point of the wedding ceremony. |
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Cordyline, phormiums and hebes are good structural plants, which will do well as the focal point of a container but can be planted in the garden when you feel like a change. |
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As the waves focus on the antipodal position, they put the crust at the focal point under significant stress and are proposed to rupture it, creating antipodal pairs. |
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The Society aims to be a focal point for appreciation and research and intends to encourage the publication of any Nicholson's works which are currently out of print. |
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In 1943, several influential Guernseymen living in London formed the Guernsey Society to provide a similar focal point and network for Guernsey exiles. |
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The stupa is the most distinctive and durable of the monuments and, as the focal point of many monastic sites, it has become a prominent symbol of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. |
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The trial became a focal point in the battle between religious fundamentalists, who believe in creationism, and modernists, who believed in the theory of evolution. |
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Although the USA was the focal point for emigration in the 19th century, emigration to Latin America was also significant for differing economic and political reasons. |
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Apart from being the focus of the country's literature and theatre, Dublin is also the focal point for much of Irish art and the Irish artistic scene. |
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In this position, Barcon, 46, is responsible for providing strategic analysis and guidance, and serving as a focal point for the company's shareholder value measurements. |
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Stirling's key position as the lowest bridging point of the River Forth before it broadens towards the Firth of Forth, made it a focal point for travel north or south. |
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The hall is inviting and spacious, the focal point being the return staircase with decorative iron frets, spindles and carved and turned newel posts. |
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Historically, the major economic centre of a state or region often becomes the focal point of political power, and becomes a capital through conquest or federation. |
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Start your room's decor with an antique furniture as the focal point, such as an oak rolltop desk, a wooden carved settee or a European style chair. |
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