fix attention

No surer way has been found to fix attention than to attempt to enforce a law or collect a fine for disobedience of it.

I know it amuses me, and it would doubtless amuse the public, to fix attention on this little affair of your own.

It was thought better to fix attention on the purely logical value of the argument presented.

Indeed, the point would not be mentioned did it not serve to fix attention upon the nature of the logical problem.

In such a country men have glimpses of the rules of honor, but they have seldom time to fix attention upon them.