Once pay arrangements became simpler, leaders could focus their efforts on more useful activities.

Thus, leaders may then focus on the bits, the few core problems, which would cause the biggest positive systemic changes, if tackled.

The company's leaders focused on the quarter-to-quarter improvement in earnings.

First, corporate leaders focus on meeting the regulations rather than trying to understand the purpose of them.

Task-oriented leaders focus on getting the necessary task, or series of tasks, at hand in order to achieve a goal.

Meanwhile, the leaders of American laboratories are focusing on current developments.

The city is now in the midst of a building boom and the city's leaders are focusing more on the future than on the past.

Currently China's leaders have focused on economic means of resolving these problems.

Unfortunately, Asian leaders have not fully focused on the looming catastrophe.

This summer, Israeli leaders have focused their attention on the American plan for a regional peace conference.