When asked about possible investigations, President Obama has said anyone who committed crimes should be prosecuted, but that his focus is on looking forward, not backwards.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Sometimes there is a strong focus on slavery but weak punishments, says I.L.O.official Roger Plant.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

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

VOA: special.2011.06.25

"Malawi is a landlocked state, it is one of the ones that we tend to worry most about, and yet it has demonstrated that when you focus attention on a problem you can make progress."

VOA: special.2010.04.26

"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

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

"The number one area we need to focus on, the biggest potential vulnerability, is a bomb on the body,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Haitian authorities say they want donors to focus on creating jobs, because giving away food is disrupting the local economy.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

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

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

"If you want to find a scapegoat you can, but that is not the main issue on which you want to focus.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

"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

"We are recognizing that God is about love and marriage is about love and that's our focus."

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

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