A teen drama is a type of drama series with a major focus on teenage characters.

By losing its geographic focus, NATO is now confronted with a major identity challenge.

The effects of orbital debris on space security and the urgent need for action were a major focus.

A major focus of activities was the promotion of the International Day for Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

The Security Council has a major role to play in making small arms a focus of global attention and action.

One of the major shifts in museum and exhibit design in the last decade has been a focus on visitor experience.

And of course, the major thing learn to pay attention, to concentrate and focus your attention.

As requested by the Executive Board, greater focus is given in this report to major emergencies.

While the mid term review has helped to sharpen the focus of UNICEF, preventing and addressing paediatric AIDS remain a major challenge.

Recognizing also that the use of women in international prostitution and trafficking networks has become a major focus of international organized crime,

Any focus on trade imbalances thus should center on the major global imbalance that of the US.

One major area of focus in 2005 was support to the first joint office model in Cape Verde.

Nuclear disarmament must therefore focus not only on a truly total elimination of stockpiles by the major powers, but also on regional powers concerns.

The European Trade Union Confederation has established a permanent trade union committee on sustainable development, with climate change as a major focus, to undertake a major study of employment impacts of climate change, identifying strategic policy avenues for job creation and environmental protection.

Nonetheless, it is disappointing that they have chosen to focus on infrastructure finance as their first major area of collaboration.

Reliance on financial institutions internal models, the major focus of the Basel II agreement on banking regulation, should be discarded.

That focus has not only made USSOUTHCOM a major recipient of federal funds, but has also turned it into something akin to an autonomous drug fighting agency.

Debt relief for the countries of the region remains a major focus of our assistance to Africa, including through the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative.

A major focus of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations has been to cooperate with and to develop mutually supportive peacekeeping activities with African regional and subregional organizations.

In April 2005, the Working Group tentatively approved its programme of work, with a focus on enhancing its understanding of the major sanctions issues through briefings by experts.

So it is no surprise that jobs have become a major focus in the presidential campaign or that the candidates have very different ideas about how to boost employment.

Major groups note that some forested countries have not submitted voluntary reports and suggest that reports should focus on obstacles to effective implementation.

My statement will focus on three issues that are of major concern to Kenya namely, capacity building, marine safety and security, and the marine environment.

Charitable contributions, for example, can be major sources of funding, with Non Governmental Organisations having been the focus of much investigative work over recent years.

With NEPAD providing an overall framework for 22 major developmental initiatives, the opportunities for and obstacles facing South South cooperation are coming clearly into focus.

UNICEF recognizes that a focus on girls, including in the earliest years and in relation to access to basic education, provides a major starting point for the promotion of gender equality in the longer term.

This was through the Kam Pussum Hed Clinic, the youth friendly drop in' centre and the health clinic arm of Wan Smolbag established in 1998 with a major focus on sexual health.

Third, staff can focus on delivery, and not be diverted by the kind of major operating system rollout and organizational restructuring that took place in 2004.

In the same year the Commission enlarged the program to a full European Mobility Week which now is the major focus of the Commission, with the Car Free Day part of a greater new mobility whole.

A number of major donors believe that the discipline of loan repayment sharpens the focus on the costs benefits of prospective projects, and provides an incentive to ensure that funds are used effectively.

Critics now had a new focus.

In this case as in any major emergency, the preservation of the scene was not the primary focus of those emergency service personnel who arrived to render assistance.

Our official development assistance (ODA) programme has a focus on poverty elimination, with a core, but not exclusive, focus on the Pacific.

Flourishing relationships also allow a dynamic balance between focus on the intimate relationships and focus on other social relationships.

The good news is that if we focus on clear, practical, and achievable goals, major reductions can be made in order to ensure that, whatever the precise interim target, the world will fashion a radical new approach within a manageable timeframe.

23.18 A major focus will be on training, including courses for Headquarters users and depository librarians overseas, as well as the electronic delivery of advice, manuals and database structures to small United Nations libraries in the field.

On the contrary, it requires a special focus.

Focus

Increasing span lengths increases the usable unencumbered floorspace in buildings diminishing the number of joints leads to lower maintenance costs over the design life of a building, since joints are the major focus of weakness in concrete buildings.

It is expected that a major focus will be on the joint UNDP UNIDO private sector development programme and the new opportunities this provides for mobilizing funds at the field level as well as at the donor headquarters.

It should give focus to its substantive agenda by concentrating on addressing the major substantive issues of the day, such as international migration and the long debated comprehensive convention on terrorism.

However, most UNU activities involve South South cooperation in that they engage individuals and institutions in developing countries and focus on issues identified by their Governments as being of major concern.

Redressing this imbalance requires a focus on key infrastructure.

Both MTRs recommended a strengthened focus on disparity reduction.

This is a major mistake.