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

VOA: special.2011.06.25

"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

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

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

"So that was a relief. I was able to put it to the side a bit, focus on football.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

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

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

As Iranian media continued to focus on international issues, the economic crisis inside the country appeared to worsen, according to many analysts.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

"And now what has happened is that the negotiators from all of the countries have agreed, O.K.we have to focus on these numbers,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

One exhibit has taken a different tack focus on some of the world's beauty spots,wilderness and wildlife.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

But speaking from Barcelona, Hugh Cole of the charity group Oxfam, says European leaders need to focus on their own lack of political will.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06