Instead, the government has focused on increasing spending to meet its grand electoral promises, including a huge amount for new grants to households and farmers.

Therefore, throughout the process, Mexico focused its efforts on seeking a consensus, first with respect to the negotiating mandate for a convention, and then in connection with the adoption of the Declaration.

When China confronted this moment during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the Communist state repressed the students with an iron fist, but has since maintained a single minded focus on economic growth.

UNESCO intensified its efforts and work with its partners and governments to address the barriers impeding girls and women's full participation in order to make the goal of gender parity and equality a reality in 2015.

Since focusing its efforts on national strategies for the development of statistics in 2004, the Partnership has co organized with its partners a dozen regional workshops on designing national strategies in the regions of the Arab States, Central America and sub Saharan Africa.

Most of this research is focused on developing countries.

Powered by the symbology of a myth and the passion of my training, I brought laser sharp focus into my dance, laser sharp focus to such an extent that I danced a few weeks after surgery.

Again, there were denunciations that focused on timing.

Reuters and some major Russian news agencies reported on the issue.

Comments by delegations focused mainly on paragraph 3.

The Court places heavy emphasis on the recruitment of highly qualified staff.

Originally Westland Aircraft, the company focused on helicopters after the Second World War.

The puzzles focused heavily on data security, cryptography, and steganography.

Most of our consultations on the Security Council have focused on the issue of its expansion.

My research has focused on the consequences of asymmetries in information for the functioning of the economy.

Discussions have focused on the analysis of specific situations justifying the use of emergency safeguard measures.

But their efforts will not be enough.

The Bush administration had turned its attention to the preparations for the Iraq war.

The foreign media have focused mainly on Erdoğan s behavior in recent months.

All of the discussion focused on the region that stretches from Libya to Iran.

Its coverage was filled with Arab masses declaring their demands to the world.

The UN has focused on getting seeds and fertilizers into the hands of small farmers.

NSU then focused on new rotary engines based on the ideas of Felix Wankel.

Studies also have focused on the role of glutamate in motor neuron degeneration.

The secretariat focused on the activities outlined in the work programme for the biennium 2004 2005.

Participants found the speakers' papers to be detailed and to the point they had particularly emphasized the positive aspects of traditional African society.

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

The MDGs were coherent because they focused on helping the poorest people in the world.

The Audi 50 was discontinued in 1978 as Audi concentrated on larger luxury models.

The discussion focussed on four potential options for the institutional status of the future IAF.

Many of the statements around the table focused on development.

Turkey was continuing its efforts to combat trafficking in persons.

The Tribunal will continue its efforts in that regard.

Alain de Botton Yes. I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I wanted to stress.

After independence in 1947, India followed an inward looking policy that focused on heavy industry.

In its current review, the Committee has therefore focused its attention on reviewing additional requirements submitted by the Secretary General.

The Unit's efforts focused on developing measures to help strengthen the independence of the judiciary and to address problems of corruption.

During the period under review, MONUC focused on community outreach activities and providing support for the electoral process.

The study on terrorism and human rights focused more on the armed conflict definitional problem, but important principles discussed in the report, such as nullum crimen sine lege and the principle of individual criminal responsibility, apply mainly in the criminal law field.

Many countries are now trying to revitalize their earlier efforts.

(i) To continue with and to step up its efforts to put a stop to the recruitment of child soldiers

The Committee urges UNFICYP to continue its efforts to control expenditure.

I focused on my mudras, on the imagery of my dance, on the poetry and the metaphor and the philosophy of the dance itself.

The debate about whether and how to introduce Eurobonds has focused on the appropriate limits on issuance.

Poe originally wrote the poem as an elocution piece and, as such, the poem is known for its focus on sound.