The focus of legislation dealing with asylum has shifted from protection to control.

My focus in recent years has kind of shifted more toward biology.

The focus of UNDCP activities in central and eastern Europe has shifted from national capacity building to well balanced subregional initiatives.

India Restoration activities in Gujarat have improved water management, protected forested areas, increased planting of local species, and shifted the economic focus away from timber extraction.

In that connection, the distinction between consumer and producer countries was found to be counter productive, as it shifted the focus of the discussion from the real issues.

Hence the focus of financial resource mobilization has been shifted from institution to process there has been no single institution to provide substantial resources commensurable to the identified needs.

The focus of the management of the hydrogeological regions has shifted from the sea itself to the surrounding land as a means of improving the environmental status of the seas.

E. Internal management 60. Over the last few years, the Programme s focus has gradually shifted from primarily providing parliamentary services and developing standards and norms to undertaking more operational activities.

And in transplantation, concepts shifted from whole organs to cells.

Its launching date has been shifted from 1996 to 1997.

The Fund has also shifted the focus of drought response from emergency relief to long term resilience, an approach that extends to new concepts for project design and implementation that focus on flexible approaches for assisting local populations in taking the initiative.

Following their demobilization, focus has shifted to the provision of reintegration assistance, which is carried out through 10 national and international NGOs.

In the development of markets and firms, the focus of policy makers has shifted increasingly to the new, rapidly growing SME sector.

They have shifted from defensive to offensive Iraqi led security initiatives.

The debate had shifted from controlling RBPs to reducing government controls.

If she'd shifted back, nothing could have kept her from capsizing.

The focus now has shifted to provision of adequate reintegration of ex combatants, including the guardiens de la paix, and ex child soldiers.

24.7 HEWS, while maintaining a database of over 100 countries, shifted its focus to more intensive monitoring of about 20 countries of concern.

11. The Office shifted the focus of its 1996 business plan to objectives rather than tasks and, in 1997, identified five priority work areas.

The Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (RBEC) then shifted its focus to governance, sustainable livelihoods, gender equality and the environment.

Once fires started, the FS shifted to greater use of imagery from aircraft.

In 2011, FFP shifted from focusing on clubs' debts to monitoring their losses instead.

The Committee is concerned about resources being shifted from substantive areas to programme support.

In short, far from leading some sort of worldwide Islamist revolution, the violent fanaticism of Al Qaeda and other organizations now resembles a repulsive, but manageable, form of ideological toxic waste. And the focus this year has shifted decisively away from it.

Given that the focus of technical cooperation had shifted from providing individual expertise to more strategic interventions, including building national capacity and enabling local talent to benefit from global knowledge networks, the rationale for maintaining a standing pool of advisers was questionable.

Of the total 11.3 million shifted from regular resources to other resources, 9.9 million relates to headquarters, with a balance of 1.4 million being shifted at the country level.

Regional balances have shifted.

However, the issues discussed there have largely been settled and the focus of public discussion has shifted to the question of employment opportunities for the ethnic minorities.

On 14 February 2004, U Tin Oo was shifted from Kale Prison to house arrest.

I just shifted it away.

Since the 1990s private finance has shifted from international syndicated bank lending to international bond issues.

There is increasing awareness that the focus of the management of that hydroecological region needs to be shifted from the sea itself to the surrounding land areas if the aim is to improve the environmental status of the Baltic Sea.

So my romance was temporarily shifted.

Priority was shifted from supply reduction to demand reduction in order to implement a more balanced approach.

34. The International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) shifted its focus to the impact of globalization on the advancement of women in response to new mandates.

As a result, the emphasis has shifted from preventing discrimination in legislation to considering differences in policy effects.

The focus has thus gradually shifted away from border measures towards domestic policies which have a trade and investment impact such as subsidies, standards, customs procedures, regulatory policies, the development of rapid and cost effective transport systems etc, the socalled behind the border agenda.

Under the new competitive conditions brought about by globalization and liberalization, the focus of competitive advantages has shifted to core production functions and has become knowledge intensive in all sectors of the economy.

What they've done is they've shifted their operations.

I think my sacroiliac shifted two points south.

At the end of the conflict, WFP shifted its interventions from emergency operations towards assistance provided to local micro projects.

Debt for nature conversion programmes have also been declining over time, but other debt for development swaps increased in 1997, with focus likely to be shifted in the future to claims held by official creditors.

Furthermore, market power had shifted from the traditional consumer electronics manufacturers to the standard setters, service and content providers and suppliers.

In recent years the emphasis had shifted from disarmament to initiatives to prevent proliferation, initiatives that bypassed the traditional multilateral mechanisms.

Owing to the unsettled political situation in Somalia, however, the focus of CBO activities since 1995 have shifted towards pursuing rehabilitation activities in some parts of Somalia that are considered safe for the return of refugees.