"America,it is time to focus on nation-building here at home."

VOA: special.2011.06.25

She said,'They think it's good.'" Clinton said the United States is making women a focus of its foreign-policy agenda.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

House-Senate negotiations will also focus on other issues, including provisions regarding abortion services, and those involving participation for illegal immigrants.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

The event's final declaration, negotiated over a nine-month period, is expected to focus on economic, environmental and energy concerns.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Approval switches the focus to the Senate, where Democrats face the difficult task of achieving a 60-seat majority to approve a version there.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

The entire legislative schedule is even more compressed as lawmakers and the White House increasingly turn their focus to the November mid-term congressional elections.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

It also objected to what it considered the Council's single-minded focus on alleged violations by Israel.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

President Obama has made defeating al-Qaida the focus of his new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

"And,we ended up being involved in state-building and counter-narcotics and human rights and nation development, which actually took the focus away from the main priority."

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

His research began with fruit flies, but over the last two decades, his focus has been on parasitic protozoa, single-celled organisms that cause major diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

But both sides have already said the Futenma relocation will not be the focus and say the issue will not be resolved in a two-day visit.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

The focus of those talks is expected to be on U.S.-Somali cooperation against Islamist extremists and insurgents, who are threatening to topple the government in Mogadishu.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

King Abdullah said he has urged the president to focus on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, saying that is the key to resolving all the other problems in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

Working from an e-mail list of millions of voters who supported his presidential campaign, they will focus on putting pressure on Congress to approve his $3.55 trillion budget for 2010.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16