Canadians are starting to debate whether the main aim of policy towards the north should be the assertion of sovereignty, and thus spending big money on military kit, or trying to improve the dire social conditions in which people live there, as many northerners would like.
ECONOMIST: The prime minister tries to marry defence and welfare
One of the main planks of British asylum policy is to discourage new arrivals.
By contrast, in Brazil the main aim of public policy has been to push carmakers to build local factories from which to supply the country's huge domestic market.
The main thrust of government policy is unlikely to change, though: Mr Erdogan has been the driving force behind the government ever since the general election last year.
"The primacy of the Budget as the main focus of fiscal and economic policy making should be re-established, " the MPs said.
But in a CNN-ORC International poll in mid-January, 53% of Americans said the main focus of U.S. policy on illegal immigration should be finding a way to allow undocumented residents to get legal status.
The main engine of its foreign policy now is the national interest.
During the final week, all participants will be invited to put forward a synopsis of the main policy concerns related specifically to their own institution or country situation.
Before he came to office, Condoleezza Rice, who became the national security adviser, argued that the main focus of American foreign policy should be on relations with long-standing allies.
For all their divisions on every other aspect of economic policy Ed Balls' main criticism of George Osborne was merely that he had not announced plans to review progress made in a year's time.
But officials are at pains to point out that, rather than help specific industries, the main thrust of the new policy is to try to boost competitiveness more generally by promoting innovation, higher education and training.
The hard truth is that if the avoidance of suffering had been the main aim of western governments, then their policy would have had a different emphasis.
Partly, too, Mr McCain's low rating may reflect the difficulties of making his main policy proposal, campaign-finance reform, interesting to voters.
"It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies, " he wrote.
Some Tory AMs suggest their main sources of intelligence on upcoming coalition policy and strategy announcements from Westminster are largely corridor chats with Liberal Democrat AMs - who, they feel, are kept considerably better in the loop about what's coming down the track.
Yet the need for greater co-ordination in fiscal policy is the main theme of the new governments' thinking.
Across the Atlantic, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, the main referee of U.S. budget policy, in January estimated the U.S. gap at 5.3% of GDP.
The Union's common agricultural policy remains one of the main obstacles to a successful Doha round.
Yet Mr Obama's main achievement is a change of tone in foreign policy.
An independent judiciary helps, as does the fact that the three main parties all agree on the broad direction of policy.
The refinancing rate that the ECB cut today has been at 0.75% since last July: Higher than the Federal Reserve's main policy rate, and the Bank of Japan's, and the Bank of England's.
The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi, however, says that foreign policy cooperation is the main focus of the talks between Mr Hague and Mr Khurshid, specially the situation in South Asia and the Middle East, particularly Syria.
Adam Posen, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, reckons that households holding back spending is one of the main reasons why Britain has done worse than America since 2009.
That would still leave the main task of sparking the economy to life to monetary policy.
The main expected outcomes of the HLG in Dakar are key policy recommendations for adoption and implementations by policy-makers in order to accelerate progress towards achieving the EFA and other related development goals.
According to this Group, the main purposes of data collection in EFA is to assist national policy making and assessment of progress towards the Dakar goals.
The policy organization at the Pentagon does two main kinds of work.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Transforming the United States Global Defense Post
The assembly government also drew the committee's fire with its TAN 8 policy for focusing on windfarms as a main source of alternative energy.
We are a poor nation getting poorer and the main task of a post referendum Wales is to focus determination, policy and resources on reversing that trend, decisively.
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