A more focused approach to the question was therefore required.

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

Samples are transferred through baths of progressively more concentrated ethanol to remove the water.

Next year, we hope to have a more focused debate on key issues.

But that's probably going to end in failure, so we need to be a bit more focused.

In more concentrated markets, banks tend to offer worse terms to customers.

A coordinated approach, where appropriate, could be more focused and resource effective.

In relation to the national technical cooperation assessment and programmes (NATCAP) process, a more focused sector approach was suggested.

That has lent a higher degree of cohesiveness to the discussions and made them more focused and action oriented.

Detailed, in depth search tools allow for more focused queries with more manageable results in a much shorter time.

You have intense concentration.

The Commission apos s work should become more focused and less theoretical.

The current debate on revitalization and restructuring hinges on whether the United Nations should become more focused or more encompassing.

Are there opportunities to make aid more accountable and oriented towards the Millennium Development Goals?

The roles and responsibilities of the desk officers also needed to be focused more on essential functions such as strategy, analysis and evaluation.

Peacekeeping logistics support concepts are now much more focused on the delivery of support capabilities than on the delivery of assets.

They too must help shoulder the burden by becoming leaner, more efficient, better focused, more responsible and more responsive.

(12) Prepare shorter and more focused documentation.

And especially as suburbia is becoming less centered on the family, the family households, there's a real hunger for more third places.

In the context of resource constraints, the Group supported the Organization's efforts to provide more focused and integrated services.

The endless and repetitive yearly general debate and agenda must be reviewed in order to shorten it and make it more focused.

Today, the variety of challenges faced by the United Nations has led to a more intensive and creative use of such familiar techniques.

Our work has broadened from inward and outward visits to providing more focused advice and practical training in the implementation of export controls.

The approach also incorporates a more focused human development strategy that recognizes the central role of the provinces and local governments in achieving human development goals.

8. This was the first step towards a more focused approach to this problem, distinguishing the specific needs of the affected areas.

In particular, it was felt that there should be fewer intergovernmental bodies and that these should have more focused mandates and be given more realistic and achievable objectives.

(j) Recognizing the need to promote and protect the human rights of all persons with disabilities, including those who require more intensive support,

During the Bronze Age, housing took a more concentrated form, and impervious surfaces emerged as a factor in the design of early human settlements.

It was, however, suggested that goals could best be achieved if resources were not scattered and were more focused than previously.

This triad will form a whole, focusing on the human person.

As a consequence, several countries around the world are attempting to revitalize their public administration, make it more proactive, more efficient, more accountable and, especially, more service oriented.

Emphasis was placed on training in order to meet that concern.

Nevertheless, as it nears its golden jubilee, it does require additional impetus, a more focused consensus for reform and revitalization.

Its new strategy had given it a sharper focus and empowered it with innovative tools, and the introduction and extensive use of new technologies had made it more effective by widening its reach to audiences.

We therefore need a United Nations that is more effective and efficient and more democratic and accountable to its Members an Organization with a balanced focus on those three challenges.

Because of those concerns, Canada has become increasingly involved in text negotiations in order to work towards fewer, more focused and more balanced draft resolutions.

It is therefore up to us each and every Member State to enhance those capabilities and to make the General Assembly's work more focused and more relevant to contemporary issues.

Thus a great deal of work has already been done that, hopefully, will facilitate a more focused and productive discussion of the agenda item with a view to forging a new framework for development cooperation.

Whereas the Secretary General's mandate as depositary is by definition a very broad one, the Commission on Human Rights might be expected to take a more focused approach.

As stated in the President's concept paper, the time is right for the relationship between the Council and regional organizations to become more focused and organized (S 2005 638, p. 3).

At the same time, efforts should be made by UNDCP, together with partner agencies and institutions, to identify more focused and precisely defined areas of cooperation.

The non paper prepared by the Working Group Chairman during the last session is also of assistance in moving towards more focused exchanges.

Print collections will not disappear, although they will be smaller and more focused.

Such cooperative efforts should include a strong focus on preventive aspects

99. UNIDO places special emphasis on the close relationship between energy and the environment.