Violence in Libya, climate change, the war in Afghanistan and trade were top of the agenda.
But as in many European countries, austerity is top of the agenda for the UK government.
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Recruitment, retention and localisation of staff is now top of the agenda for firms in China.
Scotland isn't the only place in Europe where independence is at the top of the agenda.
When Congress returns from recess, this needs to be at the top of the agenda.
Closing deals and driving revenue has been at the top of the agenda since the dawn of commerce.
On the top of the agenda: battling the diseases that plague developing nations.
Top of the agenda was a meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, a group that includes Central Asian nations.
Hygiene is not on the top of the agenda here, nor is the need to have wonderful looking buildings.
"We think this should be on the top of the agenda, " he said.
Those imbalances have pushed Asian exchange rates to the top of the agenda.
It is unlikely that putting illegal immigration at the top of the agenda in Seville will lead to a breakthrough.
It's no coincidence that questions of sovereignty have risen to the top of the agenda at a time of economic anxiety.
For a country that imports all its hydrocarbons, energy efficiency will, the government says, be pushed to the top of the agenda.
Chairman Leon Gallienne said it remained top of the agenda and the recommendations would be in front of the States within six months.
"What your car really does to the gallon is top of the agenda of every motorist, or indeed every car buyer, " said Mr Hallett.
That last question has already made its way to the top of the agenda in Tunisia, with the Islamist Ennahada party leading polls.
Rather, they say, top of the agenda in the talks with Mr Abbas were Palestinian institutional reform, accountability, law and order and a new political deal.
And if there is one challenge that should be top of the agenda at every major business school around the world, then this should be it.
Tony Blair has promised African aid will be at the top of the agenda when the leaders of the world's most powerful countries meet in Kananaskis.
Foreign Secretary William Hague has said the crisis in Syria will be at the "top of the agenda" when G8 foreign ministers meet in London this week.
But clearly at the top of the agenda is how the EU can restore confidence in financial markets and get banks lending, and the economy moving, again.
In Mr Portman Mr Romney might see a practical asset in a White House where economic recovery and deficit-cutting will be at the top of the agenda.
But the insulins and GLP-1 were top of the agenda.
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For the Liberal Democrat leader, it is delivery in health, transport and other services - and not ideology - which he says remains at the top of the agenda.
Britain takes the helm next month and has put reform of the Strasbourg court - responsible for enforcing the European Convention on Human Rights - at the top of the agenda.
I'd say, as the two leaders both noted, it was a constructive conversation that touched on all the issues in the U.S.-Russia relationship that are on the top of the agenda.
The approach may be ad hoc, but there is no mistaking the deliberate and consistent theme: corruption is at the top of the agenda and Mr Wolfowitz's Bank will not tolerate it.
Earlier, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged global political and business leaders to work together to fix the financial system as the economic crisis returned to the top of the agenda in Davos.
"We will always be happy to hear your advice and your observations about these very important issues, which are on the top of the agenda of the state of Israel, " Olmert told Cheney.
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