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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Regional balances have shifted.

So, if the mission of reconciliation has any life left, its focus has shifted. If European nation states are reconciled with each other, they are not yet fully reconciled with themselves, with their dark or grey spots, and in particular their treatment of minorities.

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.

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.

I just shifted it away.

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 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.

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.

So my romance was temporarily shifted.

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.

Their focus is always about anticipated consequences.

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.

I think my sacroiliac shifted two points south.

Europe, too, embraced the postwar international system. With security outsourced to America, European governments shifted their focus and expenditures to social welfare and set about building a twenty first century post sovereign utopia that has blurred national divisions and replaced aggression and hostility with negotiation and compromise.

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.

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.

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

Goal posts should not be selectively shifted beyond legal obligations.

Its launching date has been shifted from 1996 to 1997.

During the period 1994 1995, priority shifted to other subprogrammes.

The focus areas and their contributions to the international agenda

People in rich countries are undoubtedly familiar with the maxim that prevention is better than cure. But, given the ready availability of vaccines in developed countries, the focus of prevention efforts has shifted to changing cancer causing lifestyles.

Since the launch of my own report, In larger freedom , in March 2005, the focus has shifted to providing information on its recommendations to civil society actors to allow them to be effectively engaged in the review process.

After the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programme in Sierra Leone was officially concluded, with over 55,000 ex combatants having gone through the regular reintegration process, the focus shifted to community participation and reintegration, with particular emphasis on youth.

Others mainly focus their activities on the use of satellite data for their specific needs.

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.

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.

Second, African countries, and their international partners, must focus on results.

Nevertheless, the national consensus has shifted, shaking all assumptions about Israeli politics. The February elections will put those assumptions to their severest test in decades.

A common quip was that NATO would have to go out of area or out of business. This became particularly important after the Al Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001, shifted the focus of American foreign policy toward transnational terrorism.