fix attention

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No attempt is made to perform such a task; rather is it intended to fix attention upon the race itself as definitely as possible.

From A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith

I have furnished documents for the history of the arts; I have aroused and tried to fix attention upon that luminous point which was threatened with oblivion.

From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various

I was too ill-dressed, and my manner was too simple, to attract or fix attention.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 by Various

By its distinct connection of the favor of the deity with conduct it has tended to fix attention on the latter and to strengthen the feeling that righteousness is the sovereign thing.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

First let us fix attention on the purely mathematical question.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North