They act as a focal point for worship, as memorial stones and as relics facilitating communication between the secular and divine.
Each star has spent most of his career as the focal point of the offense.
Since 2009, Bitcoin.org has served as the focal point for the collaborative open source development effort.
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Morgan uses London as a focal point for the careers of all its new recruits outside North America.
As the focal point of Great Britain's basketball team he believes they can cause some "surprises" at London 2012.
During two millennia of exile Jews looked to Jerusalem as the focal point for their enduring relationship with God.
They are connected by the Oresund Bridge, which Scandinavian TV fans will recognise as the focal point for crime series The Bridge.
Slate production ended back in 1930 and today it is a small community with Ysgol Croesor, built in 1873, as its focal point.
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Mr Reid, the group's convener, said it had been established as a focal point on the issues of aid, sustainable development and debt.
London is already enjoying some success as a focal point for international Sharia-compliant investors, with both corporations and countries listing sukuk bonds in Britain.
Lutz says other homerooms haven't been assigned yet, but GM's new Daewoo joint venture seems a shoo-in as the focal point for small-car development.
John Lewis is currently building its biggest store outside London, due to open in 2014 as the focal point of the New Street Station redevelopment.
Stringfellow expects that most non-metropolitan parts of the country will revert to being largely free of lap dancing, with the capital's status as the focal point for adult entertainment remaining unchanged.
It is good that UNESCO is stepping up as a focal point for change, bringing these issues to a higher level of awareness and introducing them into the development agenda.
The Organization was also closely involved in the revival of the famous Library of Alexandria, destroyed over 2000 years ago, as a focal point for culture, education and science in the Arab region.
Despite falling behind so early, Shakhtar gave a good account of themselves in the opening stages, with Willian's pace down the left testing Alves and Luiz Adriano posing a constant problem as the focal point of the visitors' attacks.
In contrast, Rooney has completed 1, 634 of his 2, 208 attempted passes, or 74%, in his England career and his ability to act as a focal point for the team means England's passing improves dramatically when he's in the lineup.
While the mammoth convention includes a healthy representation of PC-related keynote speakers, such as Bill Gates, Carly Fiorina, and Craig Barrett, it remains to be seen whether the show will truly come into its own as the focal point for the consumer PC industry.
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Obviously those discussions are going to continue into tomorrow, but, again, we believe that this demonstrates the utility of the G20 serving as the focal point for this type of international economic coordination and the ability to advance a broad agenda over time and the ability to deal with very specific crises as they emerge.
The building, which is due for completion in 2005, has been hailed as a major focal point for the continued development and regeneration of Pacific Quay.
Africa is obviously the focal point as you said, you know people, is it because you started the relationship with them?
Coordinate and act as the Education Sector focal point for the development of Disaster Risk Reduction and Education and, within the framework and orientation of ESD, promote and support the effective and reciprocal linkage between Disaster Risk Reduction and Education, on the one hand, and key thematic issues, notably climate change, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, etc.
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However, Glenn Johnson, who founded the truck convoy, believes it will be difficult for the Attleborough-based charity to continue as the lorries were the "focal point of public interest" and the organisation's "main source of income".
Te'o quickly became the media focal point for Notre Dame as the Fighting Irish pulled off an unexpected 12-0 regular season, finally losing in the BCS championship to Alabama, 42-14.
Many of those approached said that they wanted the paramilitary and community murals to be a focal point, paintings that many regard as legitimate forms of cultural expression.
Slovakia has been pushed to the center of Euro politics and became a focal point for markets, still on edge as Europe struggles to find a solution to its sovereign debt woes.
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Also known as the 'bird's nest', it will be the focal point of the 2008 Summer Olympics in China.
As NBA Commissioner David Stern noted, Showtime was about an arena becoming not just the focal point for basketball, but for entertainment of all kinds.
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Winter days in Solcavsko were made for meals such as this - leisurely, delicious, eaten around the large ceramic stove that is the focal point of every house.
Instead of converging to a point on a focal plane behind the lens, the rays spread out so as to run in a thick stream roughly parallel to each other (see chart).
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