Most of the projects and programmes implemented had been successful as a result of focused lobbying.

Its mandates had been streamlined and focused on key issues directly related to trade and development.

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

In welcoming the participants, he recalled that the fourth session had been brief and focused on a single item, but the fifth session had many items to address.

We've not been focused, we've not done what we had to do, and now we're facing the potential of bad, hell on Earth.

Very interesting. The car industry has been focused just on themselves.

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

During the reporting period, UNDCP completed its main activities in India, which had been focused on drug law enforcement, demand reduction and strengthening national capacities.

The Workshop focused on three aspects of space technology applications that had not been explored in the previous workshops environmental security, disaster rehabilitation and sustainable development.

5. The Programme of Action had focused on the needs of adolescents.

Once peace had been restored, it had been possible to start redirecting efforts towards reconstruction and development and effective internal arrangements had been made in that context for collaboration between the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which was concerned essentially with relief, and UNDP, which focused on reconstruction and development.

The experience of DASA had been that emerging space countries focused on telecommunications, Earth observation and launcher development, which provided a basis for autonomy in space exploitation.

National activities in remote sensing have been focused on various kinds of applications.

The bulk of the assistance has been focused on the development of transit infrastructure.

8. The report of the Secretary General should have been more focused and analytical.

He said that ICRC had procedures that focused on compliance during an armed conflict.

Whereas a number of European studies had focused on transit and the receiving end.

The briefing had focused on the integration of gender concerns into human rights reporting.

The National Committees had been swift, focused and crucial to the UNICEF response to the Indian Ocean tsunami, raising nearly two thirds of the 500 million received by UNICEF.

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.

So I had to give up the first dream, and I focused on the second.

So we had one person focused on the eye system for almost two full years.

That meeting had focused, in particular, on Israel apos s settlement plans in East Jerusalem.

With respect to the Secretary General's report on follow up to the Beijing Declaration, which focused on achieving the goal of gender equality, Syria believed that due attention had not been paid to certain important questions, and that women's advancement had been undermined as a result.

The Chairperson referred to the six new mandates that had been established at the sixty first session and indicated that the Expanded Bureau had focused considerable attention on the issue of appointments since the conclusion of the session.

UNESCO's education objective activities have been focused on education for peace, human rights and linguistic diversity.

A number of comments had focused on the suspension of recruitment in the General Service category.

13. The global agenda for development that had emerged from recent United Nations conferences had focused on a wide range of concerns.

Steps had been taken to enhance further its constructive dialogue with States parties, ensure that its concluding comments were more focused and review its work programme for the preparation of general recommendations.

Attention has been focused in recent years on the tragic sufferings of civilians from anti personnel landmines.

Tax policy, along with other legislative measures, have been increasingly focused on reducing wealth and higher incomes.

Given that the Asia and Pacific region had one of the highest illegal migration rates, the conference had focused on strengthening regional cooperation.

The Commission further recalled that it had examined various options, and had focused its attention on the following two alternatives suggested by ACPAQ

It had focused on the globalization of R D by TNCs and its implications for developing countries.

In her current report (A 52 482), she had focused on the education system and the media.

That same expectation had been driving the work of the Commission on Sustainable Development, focused on action oriented policy decisions to speed up implementation in the areas of water, sanitation and human settlements.

In step with the decrease in new construction, increased efforts have been focused on improving existing residential buildings.

However, the report focused on what had already occurred and offered no information on what to expect now.

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

Traditionally, they had focused primarily on intervening between the parties in conflict to prevent the recurrence of hostilities.

7. Over the past three years, the Second Committee apos s debate had focused on two major issues.

It had developed an initiative focused on the role of the health sector in prevention and consequence management.

The three day event focused on the impact that the Declaration has had on societies around the world.

We can see he's been focused in America because he's been campaigning, probably, but a little bit of action over here in the Middle East.

One issue on which considerable attention has been focused this year has been on the issue of a treaty to ban anti personnel landmines (APLs).