There are few phrases that pack a more concentrated dose of subject and symbol than the perfect punchline.

These are the remains of civilizations and they are the places that people went to experience life in a more concentrated, more ordered form.

Its more concentrated population and more easily accessible health care system have given this region better health indicators than the rest of the country.

Poverty is also more concentrated in the indigenous population (29 per cent) compared to the non indigenous population (15 per cent).

He concentrated on his studies.

Came in. Got this concentrated attention.

Then working concentrated, without being frazzled.

Rural Health Centers obviously are more concentrated in rural areas (378 with 5636 beds in rural areas compared to 135 with 2250 beds in urban areas).

Outward FDI from developing countries is highly concentrated.

UNIFIL operations remained concentrated along the Blue Line.

Since October 2005, the Commission has concentrated on organizing the telephone data received into manageable databases so that it can be more easily accessible for future analysis.

Basic assistance is concentrated at regional and district levels.

Improvement appears to be concentrated in Punjab and NWFP.

Norwegian space science activities are concentrated into relatively few areas.

We'd have concentrated solar power plants at intervals along the way.

In all developing regions, however, foreign direct investment remained geographically concentrated.

This is because the executions have been concentrated in a few states.

In terms of distribution of health facilities, centers of tertiary care were more concentrated in the urban areas 721 hospitals with 68,437 beds compared to 144 hospitals with 5112 beds in rural areas.

They don't even attempt to corral the oil where it is most concentrated.

They also had an expose on government spending concentrated in the governor's hometown.

He suspected an outbreak that concentrated would probably involve a single point source.

The shortage of specialized personnel is obvious, and is concentrated in large centres.

There are few modern retail stores, and these are concentrated in urban areas.

Its main aspects concentrated on the Palestinian presidential elections held on 9 January.

The bank has 38 branches, primarily concentrated in urban and semi urban areas.

Although participation of women on executive boards continues to concentrated in subordinate posts.

Where minorities are concentrated territorially, single member districts may provide sufficient minority representation.

This programme is aimed at more advanced medium sized and small enterprises seeking to achieve international competitiveness, and is therefore concentrated on linking SMEs to larger enterprises and integrating them into broader global value chains.

What the governor's staff called a concentrated spam attack others would probably call advocacy.

The population is heavily concentrated in cities with high rates of socio professional activity

However, they remain largely concentrated subregionally in North Africa and sectorally in extractive industries.

But sadly, it is concentrated in the emerging economies of a few best performers.

Much less effort has been concentrated on steering consumers' choice towards sustainable tourism products.

And it's cheap because we've been subsidized by energy that's been concentrated by the sun.

Wind takes about two to five years on average, same as concentrated solar and photovoltaics.

As Table 1 suggests, procurement business is largely concentrated within the United Nations family itself.

The knowledge and use of those resources cannot be concentrated in the hands of the few.

For the education component of the national programme, key results were concentrated in the policy arena.

Closer cooperation between herself and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which concentrated on women's human rights, and the Commission on the Status of Women, which was a more policy oriented body, would be most beneficial.

Sarah thought quite hard about the things I'd explained and she concentrated, in those days, on listening.

In 1961, Frank Drake made his famous equation, but I think he concentrated on the wrong things.

Never before in the history of human culture had it been as professionalized, never before as concentrated.

This share, however, remained concentrated in a handful of countries, with many others attracting only small amounts.

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

Additional childcare facilities were being financed by the local government of Riga, where the population was concentrated.