But we can, and must, improve our focus and the effectiveness of our actions.

We agree that we must not lose our focus once we have moved past the emergency stage.

Our emphasis is always on people and places other media ignore.

Thirdly, our focus should be on identifying practical measures to deal with specific problems.

We should not limit our focus simply to the issue of bottom trawling.

But we must be, let us say, focused with regard to the adoption of the programme of work.

During the first three months of my chairmanship of the Counter Terrorism Committee, focus has been on the following.

For each issue examined, we focused on benefits relative to costs. To guide our thinking, we asked ourselves if we had, say, an extra 75 billion to spend, where could we achieve the most good?

Global warming scare stories merely shift our focus to the least effective ways to help.

Our focus, as the Secretary General has repeatedly emphasized to both Israelis and Palestinians, should not be limited to the immediate next steps.

This will be the main focus of the CEB meeting on 28 and 29 October 2005.

Today once again we focused mainly on Africa and the unresolved African conflicts and protection crises.

The flash appeal that has been launched covers a six month period. Our focus at this meeting should go beyond that time frame.

But for the purposes of this short statement, our focus is on the development of Palau and of small island developing States which are similarly situated.

Thus, by focusing on the (arbitrary) date of 2015, we fail to perceive the fundamental change that the MDGs represent.

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The most important discovery we made in our focus on public action was to appreciate that the hard choices are not between good and evil, but between competing goods.

Blog about it, tweet about it, talk about it, and commit a hundred percent, because very, very few things are impossible to achieve if we really put our whole minds to it.

Our one sided focus on rapid reductions in CO2 emissions is both unnecessarily expensive and unlikely to succeed.

And we must all, of course, ensure that our focus on this crisis does not divert us from international efforts to address chronic poverty in many other developing countries.

Our blinkered focus on it to the detriment of other planetary challenges will only be heightened by the attention generated by Gore s Nobel Peace Prize.

This should be a top priority for governments and a goal embraced by citizens everywhere.

If I may, let me associate myself with the remarks I just heard made by my Norwegian colleague about the need to accelerate our focus on the disgraceful record of sexual exploitation in too many United Nations missions.

This underscores the importance of striving for free trade, thereby enabling cheaper agricultural production while increasing wages in non agricultural sectors.

Akan tetapi jika kita mengumpulkan pengetahuan bersama, melibatkan petani kecil di negara negara berkembang dalam upaya ini, serta menjaga fokus kita pada pengentasan kemiskinan dan perlindungan terhadap kaum rentan, kita bisa memiliki lebih banyak bahan bakar, lebih banyak pangan, dan kemakmuran yang lebih luas bagi seluruh penduduk dunia.

The problem is that hunger still persists on a vast scale so, our focus must now shift to ensuring universal access to adequate food. This should be a top priority for governments and a goal embraced by citizens everywhere.

So in this ambition to capture songs from the universe, we turn our focus to black holes and the promise they have, because black holes can bang on space time like mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song, which I'd like to play for you some of our predictions for what that song will be like.

It is not that we should feel nothing but we should be encouraged to think more and to prevent the wound rather than pay for the Band Aid. In a media culture that can deliver instant stardom and fickle trends, our attention shifts too rapidly to see the forest for the trees.

There is therefore a danger that excessive focus on too big to fail could become a new form of the belief that if only we could identify and correct some crucial market failure, we would, at last, achieve a stable and self equilibrating system.