By extension, this theory holds that, as president, Mitt Romney would "set things right" by putting Europe back near the center of U.S. attention, halt the decline in U.S. troops on the Continent, renew a push to enlarge NATO eastward, and take keener interest in potential trouble emanating from Russia, the Balkans and North Africa.
CHICAGO, Nov. 7 — Former Gov. George Ryan, who drew international attention for halting the death penalty in this state, reported to a federal prison in Wisconsin on Wednesday to begin his six-and-a-half-year sentence for racketeering and fraud.
Frustrated with the lack of will to police fracking they have encountered locally, many of the insurgents in Pennsylvania's fracking war have turned their attention to halting the transmission of the gas, targeting a slew of new federally regulated infrastructure projects aimed at getting methane pulled from the ground in their backyards over to markets on the Eastern seaboard and abroad.
But with the Syrian track of the Middle East peace efforts at a halt, attention turned to the Palestinian track.
As direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations appear to have ground to an indefinite halt, attention has shifted to other, less conventional methods for achieving mutually desirable outcomes for the two peoples.
In computing a high-priority interrupt happens when something requires a computer processor's immediate attention, and the machine halts normal operations and jumps the urgent issue to the head of the processing queue.
While many of the stories about children have drawn media focus, the gruesome coincidence in which a Palestinian doctor was presented with one of his own drew particular attention just hours before the halt to fighting was scheduled to begin.
The halt drew international attention to Chinese restrictions on exports of rare earths and helped lead to the filing in March this year of a World Trade Organization case, in which the European Union, the United States and Japan challenged China's right to limit exports of such important minerals.
Their numbers suggested a growing critical mass of public sympathy, in a size that could get the attention of politicians who could halt the construction.
School violence may be on the decline, but communities everywhere are struggling with an elusive offshoot--baseless threats by students seeking to halt classes, get attention or a laugh.
A sudden increase in deaths among boys who had received VAS in the rainy season provoked our attention and the decision to halt inclusion.
