"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

From Asia,Secretary Gates will travel to Slovakia for a meeting of NATO defense ministers expected to focus on Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

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

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

The political analyst believes Cairo would be better off to focus on issues close to home, whether successful or not.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

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

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

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

Jones says Indonesia needs to focus more on intelligence work and preventing the recruitment of new militants through education and community involvement.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

"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

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