The general debate this year has been more focused than previously.

Very interesting. The car industry has been focused just on themselves.

His music has for a while been focused on social justice issues.

Media attention has been focused on the security wall, which has certainly succeeded in reducing the level of violence.

What has your investigation focused on?

Until now, most attention has been focused on effects on ecosystems and their vulnerability to climate change.

News coverage of Royalty has been more focused on glimpses of the lives of members of Royal Families.

Inevitably, this has focused on specific events.

Global attention has been focused on weighing the three candidates strengths and qualifications, particularly their economic and financial credentials.

However, military counter mine technology has been almost exclusively focused on minefield breaching to enable forces to pass through.

The EU s foreign policy attention has recently focused on Kosovo, but it is Bosnia that has always been the bigger and more dangerous challenge.

UNIDIR's fellowship programme has focused on regional security.

508. UNHCR has also focused on refugee children.

However, quite naturally the majority of attention has been focused on providing assistance to those individuals directly impacted by mines.

Meddling from Moscow has certainly focused minds in Kiev.

It has a limited, but focused, role in conflict settlement.

In this connection, the Committee notes that there has not always been adequate enforcement of existing legislation nor have public education activities been sufficiently focused on those problems.

The European Central Bank, tightly focused on price stability, has been raising interest rates, and the US Federal Reserve may soon follow suit.

Russia, in particular, has focused on treaties, conferences, and political arrangements.

Virrankoski has in his research focused on economic and social history.

The World Bank has focused its Chernobyl recovery activities on Belarus.

However, in the Asia and the Pacific region, the application and development of these approaches has been rather limited, and there has been no focused capacity building or development of relevant tools at the subregional level.

The fact that attention has been focused solely on the arms in the possession of FPL has today been used by the Government as a pretext for cancelling a high level meeting at the eleventh hour.

Charges and countercharges on the cyber issue have focused primarily on motives. The US has been quick to distinguish between commercial and military espionage.

Analysis of the situation has not been systematic and well focused, but available statistics do show unsatisfactory or poor progress in almost all areas.

In most of Asia, land reform has focused on converting tenants into private smallholder owners, except in China, where a different model promoting the household responsibility system has been adopted.

The Gender and Development Framework Programme (PCGeD), which has been in effect since 2000, has served to introduce an institutional framework specifically focused on the promotion of women and children.

But his successor, Hu Jintao, has focused on the damage that has come from unrestrained growth.

Discussion of early warning systems for tsunamis has focused on government programs.

The Government of the Syrian Arab Republic has consistently focused on education.

During the PDF B phase China has focused on strengthening participatory approaches.

This research project has focused on confidence building measures for maritime security.

The Bank has been too focused on itself and its reputation, and not enough on the countries that it advises and in which it operates, while institution building has been considered to be embedded in the growth agenda.

The scientific production in hard sciences has been limited due to lack of funding but focused around physics, statistics, and partial differential equations in mathematics.

Much attention has been focused in recent years on the barriers facing the transfer of mitigation technologies that can be integrated in sustainable development strategies.

2. The work of the former Department in relation to assistance to the Palestinian people has been focused to a large extent on development planning.

It is natural that in recent years attention has focused on Part XI as the negotiations initiated by the Secretary General have been in train.

Training partners are encouraged to make controlled and focused contact with their opponent, but to withdraw their attack as soon as surface contact has been made.

With the observance of the International Year the attention of the United Nations has for the first time been focused directly and solely on indigenous peoples.

Of late, the attention of the world community has been increasingly focused on the need to protect United Nations staff as it carries out humanitarian operations.

SCU has focused on 10 priority cases and 5 widespread patterns of violence.

5. As the programme has evolved, so too have the areas of assistance on which it has focused.

Even as the environmental implications of such a project are being discussed, along its economic viability, the debate has been focused on the nature of Adam's Bridge.

It has been suggested that the multi stakeholder dialogue of a session be focused on seeking multi stakeholder perspectives on the specific agenda items of that session.

Since October 2002, the work of the Terrorism Prevention Branch of UNODC has been largely focused on operational activities aimed at strengthening the legal regime against terrorism.