Their views were mostly focused on the expansion of the Council's membership.

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

So far, unemployment has become increasingly concentrated in one hemisphere, while income and capital is concentrated in the other.

We want to see the summit outcome focus on all groups of vulnerable countries and those unlikely to meet the Millennium Development Goals, including small island developing States.

Indeed, there are talks centered on debt, with some creditors interested in the mechanics of capitalization.

From high tech Google to mass retailer Wal Mart, US companies have found ways to keep their shops union free.

The result was that the main hotbeds of armed conflict were concentrated in geo strategically important areas.

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

Secondly, foreign direct investment has been concentrated in, and is becoming almost confined to, the larger, faster growing developing countries.

The weaker a country s institutions, the more evident the inequalities, and the more concentrated the economic resources, the greater the caudillo s powers will be.

At the beginning of 2012, China s concerns centered on local government debt, underground credit networks, and real estate bubbles.

What was distinctive this time was that the new borrowing was concentrated in housing.

Humanitarian activities related to the return of IDPs have until now focused mainly on transport assistance and the distribution of return packages, while working groups on sexual violence and child protection have been set up in a number of places.

Activities centred on advisory missions, training of officials in WTO related issues, procurement of IT equipment and the provision of consultants in specific areas to assist the negotiating team. Technical advisory missions were sent to Cape Verde, Ethiopia and Sudan in preparation for the first working party on accession.

Where job growth has taken place, it has been concentrated in insecure, informal employment with low wages and few benefits.

Action to address those issues had so far focused on coordinating working methods and streamlining reporting requirements, including through the expansion of the core document to include information on substantive rights congruent to all or several treaties.

Owing to historical factors and opportunities, financial transactions were concentrated in cities that were traditionally closely linked to the rise of European and American capitalism.

The Peace of Lodi, concluded in 1454, brought forty years of comparative peace to Northern Italy, as Venetian conflicts focussed elsewhere.

During its third and fourth sessions, the Forum held regionally focused events to showcase experiences in the implementation of sustainable forest management.

UNICEF advocacy in this target area has focused on promoting global vaccine security and building public trust in vaccines.

IAEA held workshops in several States on the basic principles of the design basis threat concept.

During the first videoconference, held on September 15, 2004, the discussion centered on the candidature of women in the 2004 municipal elections.

So the more power is concentrated at the center, the more it becomes possible for anti democratic forces to gain or regain control over a country.

Recent efforts had focused on improving social and poverty indicators through an innovative and efficient social policy based on a strategy that effectively targeted the causes of poverty, put people at the centre of development and enhanced their capacity to live life to the full.

centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

Southwest Finland or Finland Proper (, , ), is a historical province in south western Finland, centred on the historic city of Turku (Swedish Åbo) and the Turku Castle.

However, Libya at this time developed its own literary tradition, centred on oral poetry, much of which expressed the suffering brought about by the Italian colonial period.

It was in that context that operations in the subregion, which hosts more than 1.2 million refugees, focused on voluntary repatriation.

Their public comments were typically devoted to development, ending Africa's many wars, and the fight against HIV AIDS, but all of them had oil on their minds.

To date, the activities of OIOS have concentrated on the preparation of mandated reports, the conduct of programme monitoring and limited support to results based management.

BRUSSELS MEXICO CITY Since the global economic downturn began in 2008, debate has centered on the macroeconomic strategies and instruments used to address the crisis and foster recovery.

The establishment of more nuclear weapon free zones would encourage détente and reduce political room for manoeuvre for the United States and its allies.

Our first message was that the current round of trade negotiations, especially as it has evolved, does not deserve even to be called a Development Round.

Like the Ertebølle culture, the settlements were concentrated near water, in this case creeks, riverdunes and bogs along post glacial banks of rivers like the Overijsselse Vecht.

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, those who died were the poor in low lying areas who lacked cars to escape.

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With this African centred stance, Nigeria readily sent troops to the Congo at the behest of the United Nations shortly after independence (and has maintained membership since that time).

WASHINGTON, DC The United States government s initial statements on the first step agreement on Iran s nuclear program have been focused, above all, on the great deal that the US and the West have gotten.

In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, efforts focused on search and rescue, bringing clean water, food, clothing, medical care and shelter to survivors, and identifying and burying the vast number of dead.

If CDSs are concentrated in particular financial institutions, these institutions could be at risk more so than the primary purchasers of Greek debt themselves.

The plan called for the right flank of the German advance to bypass the French armies (which were concentrated on the Franco German border, leaving the Belgian border without significant French forces) and move south to Paris.

OSCE counter terrorism efforts initially focused on three main areas the ratification and implementation of the 12 universal counter terrorism instruments, combating the financing of terrorism and the police capacity building programmes.

The new class that populates them does not demonize foreign capital. Indeed, there are talks centered on debt, with some creditors interested in the mechanics of capitalization.

In the same year, efforts were focused on providing quality of service guarantees (as required by real time interactive applications) to cloud based infrastructures, in the framework of the IRMOS European Commission funded project, resulting in a real time cloud environment.

In 1054, after centuries of strained relations, the Great Schism occurred over differences in doctrine, splitting the Christian world between the Catholic Church, centered in Rome and dominant in the West, and the Orthodox Church, centered in Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.