"That's the wonderful thing about Earth Day is that it really provides a platform, an opportunity for grassroots organizations and community organizations to really focus on what's happening in their neighborhoods and their homes in their communities, in their businesses and to focus on the priority problems and to engage people maybe for the first time in taking environmental action."

VOA: special.2010.04.21

We made a special effort towards the World Cup here in order to really have Africa in the focus,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Some of the experiments focus on studying how orbiting in space can affect the human body and plant growth.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

He said developing an ideology of confidence in condoms is not correct because it fails to focus on personal responsibility.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

In the meantime, Thabut says it's important to focus on the details that separate the most successful transplant hospitals from the rest.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

And,the spate of suicides at the Foxconn plant in southern China also helped focus attention on wages and conditions in Chinese factories.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

But the focus was on the secret military documents leaked by the Internet website WikiLeaks that highlighted the military difficulties in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

A Vatican spokesman said developing an ideology of confidence in condoms fails to focus on personal responsibility.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

Participating teams, in the meantime, are trying to focus on football, and hoping not to be distracted by the environment off the field.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

A major conference in Copenhagen at the end of the year will focus on ways to mitigate the worst affects of global warming.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

But,he tells the U.N.experts to expand their focus to include countries like his own in their probe.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

General Keen says U.S.troops are working to assume more responsibility for aid distribution, which will allow U.N.peacekeepers in Haiti to focus on security concerns.

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

His first stop in Iraq, at Talil Air Base,south of Baghdad, underscores the new focus of U.S.troops in advising and training Iraqi security forces.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

Masood adds that Hobrooke's focus while in Pakistan the plight of internally displaced persons is critical to the wider U.S.interest of ridding Pakistan of terrorism.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03