But in a sign the United States is not focusing solely on the Palestinian issue, Mitchell began his mission in Damascus.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

In France,Mr.Sarkozy says focusing too much on gross domestic product as the main measure of prosperity contributed to the financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

After weeks of focusing on the U.S.economy, President Obama steps onto the world stage in London.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

He says his decision was guided in large part by new intelligence that shows Iran is focusing on the development of medium and short-range missiles.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

In addition, Islamic finance differs from conventional Western methods by focusing on profit-sharing, with wealth generated through trade and investment in assets, such as property or commodities.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

(Speaking in French) Boisserie argues the government is focusing too narrowly on the elite grandes ecoles, which account for just a small slice of French university graduates.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

At the week-long conference, participants are focusing on three primary roadblocks to getting and keeping girls in school: violence,poverty and the poor quality of education being offered.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

I think it needs to be very carefully designed, and even then is only likely to be successful in a corporate environment in which there is a lot of focusing on better health."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Earlier this month, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced a new strategy to confront the causes of violence in the North Caucasus by focusing on efforts to improve economic conditions in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

The regional Interpol office is also focusing on increasing piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, illegal drug trafficking, arms smuggling, cross-border highway banditry, computer-based crimes, and the poaching and trade of protected animals.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Nearly two weeks after Pakistani security forces began attacking Taliban positions in the northwest Malakand region, the army says troops are now focusing on the estimated 4,000 core fighters entrenched in the militant stronghold Swat valley.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

"Some of these inventors have been designers of the human genome sequencer, incredible technologies around focusing sound in the same way have been able to focus light with lasers, health technologies like the stair-climbing wheelchair and a portable dialysis machine,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

"In our pandemic work, we were really focusing on the avian influenza, mostly in Asia and Africa, so the assumption that the next pandemic would start overseas, far from the U.S., turned out not to be true."

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Analysts say that Republicans have had some success in raising doubts about the Obama health care initiative by focusing on the impact of the plan on the growing federal budget deficit and by raising the specter of too much government interference in the health care sector.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02