During the 1960's, Washington became the national focus of the civil rights movement and a metaphor for it locally.

They often have a particular national, or linguistic focus.

As President, one of my first missions is to keep the national focus on our offensive against drugs.

The confirmation battle is but one of the major issues this fall that puts a national focus on key players.

Clearly, our national focus for training has been removed.

With all the national focus, none of these people were able to grieve in private at first.

The book began as a series of newspaper reports, which made the issue a "national focus".

Continuing police activity became a national focus following the suicide of a client that year.

These range in scope from neighborhood efforts to campaigns with a national focus.

These issues and others are striking evidence of a historic national focus on education.