Attention must also be focused on achieving those goals.

So we have a very focused, purpose driven kind of attention.

Increasing attention was focused on trafficking in human beings, especially women and children.

For those reasons, particular attention should be focused on those grievances and on their origin.

But you've got to grab their emotional attention, focused on you, within that first few seconds.

Even in the wake of Katrina and the tsunami, we have not focused enough attention on the environment.

After reviewing the data, he noted that Africa had begun to receive the focused attention its circumstances warranted.

Since the introduction of changes in the education system in the 1960s, attention had increasingly been focused on girls.

Although our attention is focused on the upcoming Israeli withdrawal, we must not lose sight of the wider context.

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

These two important initiatives focused attention on the need to overcome poverty and to achieve development in the new millennium.

For the moment, it is critical that we remain focused so that all elements of the reform receive our undivided attention.

It was, however, wrong that public attention no longer focused on the issue, because there was still a lot to do.

This augmentation has enabled the Department to devote sustained and focused attention to pressing security needs in a number of areas.

While much attention was focused on orphaned children, a much larger group of children was affected, including those who were infected.

So, the audience is dispersed, focused attention and dramatic build up and climax are all replaced by a kind of attenuated attention that's sustained by a sense of apprehension caused by the fog.

The past 15 years have focused an unusual degree of attention on the problem M. Koskenniemi, State Succession Codification Tested Against the Facts, Nijhoff, 2000.

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.

I may also be interested in knowing how focused I am, so I can put my level of attention into the circuit board on the other side.

Most attention is focused on genetic diseases, such as Alzheimer s and Parkinson s, and to muscular dystrophy. In these cases, stem cells would be encouraged to restore nerve tissue.

STRESSES that sexual and reproductive health and rights in relation to women's rights and empowerment merits focused attention, particularly related to gender equality and male involvement in programs

Under this agenda item, attention focused on the importance of better understanding regional and subregional perspectives on minority issues, including through the organization of subregional meetings and other initiatives.

Over the past several years, much attention has focused on the role of China s trade surplus in creating today s global financial imbalances. But too little attention has been paid to the role of Japan s policy of near zero interest rates in contributing to these imbalances.

But the fact is, people are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.

But most attention has focused on the EU s three top positions the President of the European Commission, the President of the European Council, and the High Representative for external affairs.

That designation not only focused special attention on the part of the Organization to that group but also facilitated analysis of the root cause of the problem and possible solutions.

In the course of the past year, much attention was focused on administrative and management issues resulting from allegations of improprieties, which gave rise to investigations conducted in some operations.

MINUGUA verification reports were an important reference point for participants in the 2002 2003 Consultative Group meetings, which focused national and international attention on the implementation of the peace agreements.

In assessing the impact of implementing PRSPs and government budgets on disadvantaged groups, including women, attention is focused on the development of gender sensitive diagnostic tools such as gender budgeting.

The Combining Work and Care project focused particularly on the combination of paid employment and caring for children, and therefore did not pay so much targeted attention to older women.

Special attention would have to be focused on the impact of HIV AIDS on Gambian women, which had been a far less serious issue when the Policy was first formulated.

In practice, Israel has been taking other measures to secure its future. Media attention has been focused on the security wall, which has certainly succeeded in reducing the level of violence.

The independent expert joined an 11 January press release of United Nations human rights mandate holders calling for focused attention on most vulnerable tsunami survivors and their full participation in rebuilding.

Specifically, attention must be focused on the veto in all its aspects, with a view to ascertaining the degree of its usefulness vis à vis today's requirements for global peace and security.

The coordination segment focused attention on the implementation of the agreed international development goals and the role of the United Nations globally and nationally, again closely linked with the September World Summit.

The earthquake and tsunami of 26 December 2004 focused the world's attention on the need for the countries of Asia, the Pacific and the Indian Ocean to have effective disaster management capabilities.

CAMBRIDGE With less than two months remaining before America s presidential election, much attention is focused on the state of the American economy and the challenges that it will present to the next president.

So, maybe the word overheated is misleading. It might be more accurate to say that public attention is over focused on some recent price changes, or over accepting of some high market values.

Special attention will be given to promoting in developed countries the opportunities generated by and in connection with these integrated programmes, especially those focused on the development of trade capacities and sector enterprise upgrading.

The Committee has also focused particular attention on building up the Committee's capacity by developing new practical ways and means to carry out more effective monitoring of Member States' implementation of resolution 1373 (2001).

The evaluation found that where there is attention to gender, it tends to emphasize only women focused activities and that there have been many missed opportunities to approach poverty reduction in a strategic way.

Lack of economic governance was seen as the heart of previous failures in Haiti so that much attention continues to be focused on budget preparation, expenditure control, public bidding processes, and management of public enterprises.

Attention should be focused on Arab regional integration and the study of mechanisms that would activate this integration and on reviewing the existing organizational structure of the secretariat in order best to serve Arab integration.

Focused concluding comments

The MDGs encompass eight goals, 21 targets, and 60 indicators. Much criticism has focused on the use of these numerical targets and indicators, which, skeptics argue, are misspecified, mismeasured, and divert attention from equally important areas.