What's the difference between businesslike and focused?

Businesslike


Definition:

  • (a.) In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wearing a dark suit, a white shirt and a black tie, Pistorius, 27, carried a black briefcase, and looked more composed and businesslike than at last year's bail hearings.
  • (2) He first encountered May when the pair stood against each other in the safe Labour seat of Durham in 1992, and recalled her as “very competent, very serious, very businesslike”.
  • (3) This violence comes from multiple sources, but some prominent ones appear to be the businesslike operations of crack distribution, the personal disorganization that surrounds and characterizes the crack-consuming environment, and the distortions of character that crack users describe as often accompanying significant binges of crack consumption.
  • (4) On that basis, the Democrat narrowly deserves to be re-elected … For all his businesslike intentions, Mr Romney has an economic plan that works only if you don't believe most of what he says.
  • (5) [...] Western diplomats have said they were impressed by Zarif's businesslike approach at the foreign ministers' meeting on Thursday and said he put "new ideas" on the table that they did not describe.
  • (6) Breathes's desk at Westword HQ is a classic American office cubicle, sober and businesslike, even though the shelves around his computer are filled with cigarette papers and joint holders.
  • (7) But it shouldn’t be too much to ask for cordial and businesslike relations to be established with Jewish groups.
  • (8) These were very businesslike discussions,” says one White House official.
  • (9) He has already said relations are going to be more businesslike , while Alexander has said the Liberal Democrats can no longer rely on the public learning about the differences within the coalition by osmosis.
  • (10) After his meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said "the discussions were very substantive, businesslike," adding he hoped a solution could be found in a timely fashion.
  • (11) It is also possible that the next general round of improvement will result from the application of businesslike information management and marketing techniques.
  • (12) I think they have always been that way, but you have to be businesslike and professional and you have to work with people who aren't your natural bedfellows and that is being grownup in politics."
  • (13) Common to many of these problems is the lack of a businesslike orientation to RDFs and, in particular, lack of careful financial planning and management.
  • (14) In his campaign speech on Monday, Noda gave notice of a moderate, businesslike style of leadership, citing a Japanese poem to describe himself as more of a loach – a bottom-feeding freshwater fish – than a goldfish.
  • (15) "We are not going to leverage the value of the investments that we do make, unless we start to behave in a more businesslike and coherent way across the police service," said one contributor.
  • (16) The atmosphere was businesslike and meetings will continue this afternoon."
  • (17) New Labour is determined to bring a businesslike approach to Government and today, only ten days in to our term of office, I am launching a New Mission Statement for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
  • (18) Even clad in casual clothing and past retirement age, she retained a businesslike demeanor.
  • (19) Villa spent the first 10 minutes bemused by the movement and interchangeability of Chelsea's three-quarter line of Oscar, Willian and Eden Hazard as the visitors opened the game with businesslike intent, moving the ball around purposefully and always appearing to have a spare man.
  • (20) Picking up points against a Chelsea side beginning to look lean and businesslike again seemed a tall order.

Focused


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Focus

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Work on humoral responses has focused on lysozyme, the hemagglutinins (especially in the oyster), and the clearance of certain antigens.
  • (2) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
  • (3) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
  • (4) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
  • (5) The review provides an update of drug-induced pulmonary disorders, focusing on newer agents whose effects on the lung have been studied recently.
  • (6) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
  • (7) Subsequent isoelectric focusing in sucrose revealed an isoelectric point of 9.0-9.2.
  • (8) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
  • (9) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (10) For enrolled nurses an increase in "Intrinsic Job Satisfaction" was less well maintained and no differences were found over time on "Patient Focus".
  • (11) Isoelectric points for two normal liver isoenzymes demonstrable by isoelectric focusing are pH5.9 and 6.0.
  • (12) "As part of this de-leveraging process, the group will also focus on eliminating any loss-making businesses."
  • (13) Serum and pituitary gonadotropins, hypothalamic luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH), and the profile of FSH forms across the isoelectric focusing gel were determined by radioimmunoassay.
  • (14) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
  • (15) The primary focus of both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy should be to control systemic blood pressure in a simple, affordable, and nontoxic fashion that provides an adequate quality of life.
  • (16) Proper function of proteinases such as PA may require focusing of activity on a cellular level.
  • (17) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
  • (18) Inclusion-forming and non-inclusion-forming elementary bodies focused in one band at pI 4.64.
  • (19) This review focused on the methods used to identify language impairment in specifically language-impaired subjects participating in 72 research studies that were described in four journals from 1983 to 1988.
  • (20) Network #5 conducted a pilot study of state survey results to profile data for Medical Review Board (MRB) analysis and to identify potential areas where educational activities could be focused.