My focus in recent years has kind of shifted more toward biology.

The focus of legislation dealing with asylum has shifted from protection to control.

The focus of UNDCP activities in central and eastern Europe has shifted from national capacity building to well balanced subregional initiatives.

Following their demobilization, focus has shifted to the provision of reintegration assistance, which is carried out through 10 national and international NGOs.

In the development of markets and firms, the focus of policy makers has shifted increasingly to the new, rapidly growing SME sector.

The focus now has shifted to provision of adequate reintegration of ex combatants, including the guardiens de la paix, and ex child soldiers.

Hence the focus of financial resource mobilization has been shifted from institution to process there has been no single institution to provide substantial resources commensurable to the identified needs.

However, the issues discussed there have largely been settled and the focus of public discussion has shifted to the question of employment opportunities for the ethnic minorities.

Under the new competitive conditions brought about by globalization and liberalization, the focus of competitive advantages has shifted to core production functions and has become knowledge intensive in all sectors of the economy.

Its launching date has been shifted from 1996 to 1997.

The focus of the management of the hydrogeological regions has shifted from the sea itself to the surrounding land as a means of improving the environmental status of the seas.

E. Internal management 60. Over the last few years, the Programme s focus has gradually shifted from primarily providing parliamentary services and developing standards and norms to undertaking more operational activities.

The Fund has also shifted the focus of drought response from emergency relief to long term resilience, an approach that extends to new concepts for project design and implementation that focus on flexible approaches for assisting local populations in taking the initiative.

24.7 HEWS, while maintaining a database of over 100 countries, shifted its focus to more intensive monitoring of about 20 countries of concern.

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11. The Office shifted the focus of its 1996 business plan to objectives rather than tasks and, in 1997, identified five priority work areas.

The Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (RBEC) then shifted its focus to governance, sustainable livelihoods, gender equality and the environment.

Emphasis has now shifted on implementing a country wide programme of disarming illegal armed groups.

India Restoration activities in Gujarat have improved water management, protected forested areas, increased planting of local species, and shifted the economic focus away from timber extraction.

So, if the mission of reconciliation has any life left, its focus has shifted. If European nation states are reconciled with each other, they are not yet fully reconciled with themselves, with their dark or grey spots, and in particular their treatment of minorities.

People in rich countries are undoubtedly familiar with the maxim that prevention is better than cure. But, given the ready availability of vaccines in developed countries, the focus of prevention efforts has shifted to changing cancer causing lifestyles.

Since the launch of my own report, In larger freedom , in March 2005, the focus has shifted to providing information on its recommendations to civil society actors to allow them to be effectively engaged in the review process.

Regional balances have shifted.

Since the 1990s private finance has shifted from international syndicated bank lending to international bond issues.

109. The commercial application of information technology has shifted the balance between corporate and State power.

Although the essence of this statement has remained the same since 1985, the context has changed over the years and the emphasis has shifted.

In that connection, the distinction between consumer and producer countries was found to be counter productive, as it shifted the focus of the discussion from the real issues.

There have been large structural shifts in the world economy (e.g., trade and financial globalization) as well as in individual economies (such as the decline in trade union power). Monetary policy itself has shifted to a far greater focus on inflation.

The focus of activities has been shifted towards implementing the OAU Political Declaration and Plan of Action on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking Control in Africa, which was formulated with UNDCP assistance and adopted at the OAU summit in July 1996.

I just shifted it away.

As a result, the emphasis has shifted from preventing discrimination in legislation to considering differences in policy effects.

In short, far from leading some sort of worldwide Islamist revolution, the violent fanaticism of Al Qaeda and other organizations now resembles a repulsive, but manageable, form of ideological toxic waste. And the focus this year has shifted decisively away from it.

So my romance was temporarily shifted.

34. The International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) shifted its focus to the impact of globalization on the advancement of women in response to new mandates.

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The focus has thus gradually shifted away from border measures towards domestic policies which have a trade and investment impact such as subsidies, standards, customs procedures, regulatory policies, the development of rapid and cost effective transport systems etc, the socalled behind the border agenda.

With the promotion of 70 Magistrates' Court judges to the High Courts, the ethnic composition in the latter has shifted.

The Fund has a special focus on women.

A user focus group has also been established.

A video player that has a usability focus

Europe, too, embraced the postwar international system. With security outsourced to America, European governments shifted their focus and expenditures to social welfare and set about building a twenty first century post sovereign utopia that has blurred national divisions and replaced aggression and hostility with negotiation and compromise.

But people do because it's so cheap, and so our whole food system in the last 30 years has really shifted.

What they've done is they've shifted their operations.

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A particular focus has been on children and women.