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  • adverb With respect to a focus

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  • adverb in a focal manner

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Examples

  • That full aliveness of human beings includes surely, focally, centrally the capacity to ask the right questions, the capacity to know what is to be trusted and what is not to be trusted, the capacity above all to find words in common that enable acts in common to prevent us from the literal madness of isolation and self-destruction.

    'Faith, Reason and Quality Assurance - Having Faith in Academic Life' 2008

  • And to say that the role of the university is focally about helping us to have this discerning approach to language is not to say that the university is committed to – in the narrow sense – rationalism or intellectualism, but to say that it is rather about the forging of the proper medium of human exchange.

    'Faith, Reason and Quality Assurance - Having Faith in Academic Life' 2008

  • And to say that the role of the university is focally about helping us to have this discerning approach to language is not to say that the university is committed to – in the narrow sense – rationalism or intellectualism, but to say that it is rather about the forging of the proper medium of human exchange.

    'Faith, Reason and Quality Assurance - Having Faith in Academic Life' 2008

  • That full aliveness of human beings includes surely, focally, centrally the capacity to ask the right questions, the capacity to know what is to be trusted and what is not to be trusted, the capacity above all to find words in common that enable acts in common to prevent us from the literal madness of isolation and self-destruction.

    'Faith, Reason and Quality Assurance - Having Faith in Academic Life' 2008

  • God is a God who upturns the conventions and the ideas and the images we have and he does it centrally, focally, forever, in the life and death of Jesus.

    CEFACS lecture, Birmingham 2004

  • (JAFA), held discussions with Mr Pik Botha on the 6th of August 1996 at Pretoria, to ascertain the possibility of him being focally involved with the alliance.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Corroded dosing pumps were still on the containers, some were falling to pieces, electric cables from the switchboard were hanging loosely from wall to wan and, in the far end of the container, we discovered a pair of sandals focally called flip flop.

    1. Historical development and experience with water treatment 1996

  • And one thing is clear, that when all the causes of war, involving _manifest_ injustice, are banished by the force of European opinion, focally converged upon the subject, the range of war will be prodigiously circumscribed.

    Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • And one thing is clear, that when all the causes of war, involving _manifest_ injustice, are banished by the force of European opinion, focally converged upon the subject, the range of war will be prodigiously circumscribed.

    Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • There was a moderate excess (pleural cavity half filled) of slightly turbid fluid and focally extensive welldemarcated red-purple slightly dry areas on cut surfaces of the lung tissue particularly on the dorsal aspect of the caudal lung lobes.

    ThePigSite - Global Pig Industry News Feeds 2010

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