Sentence examples for authorities focusing on from inspiring English sources
An international search was launched, with authorities focusing on finding a yacht belonging to Jeffrey Hanson, a skilled sailor with experience voyaging around Mexico and the South Pacific.
Our findings call for appropriate strategies on the part of relevant authorities, focusing on the doctors' working conditions, such as their salaries and how cost containment influence their work.
With the authorities focused on political turmoil in the capital, many soldiers fled their posts, and jihadists began asserting control.
"It got worse here," he said, suggesting that the authorities focus on other pressing needs in the city.
The authorities focused on finding prostitutes who were seeking customers on the Web or at places like truck stops and casinos.
The investigation focusing on Mr. Zazi came to light on Monday after a weekend of hurried activity by federal and local authorities focused on Mr. Zazi's Sept. 10 trip to New York.
"Our statutory objectives and authorities focus on financial products and services for consumers," Dan Sokolov, the bureau's deputy associate director of research and regulations, said in prepared testimony before the panel.
Beginning in the 1980's and gaining momentum in the 1990's with the defection of Mr. Gravano and other high-level mob figures, federal and state authorities focused on the mob's control of certain industries and corrupt unions.
So as federal authorities focus on an investigation they call serious, they must determine whether the tone and substance of those conversations add up to a shakedown attempt or just a particularly heated and high-stakes legal negotiation.
Peter Lloyd, a director of Supporters Direct, said: "We want football-only laws to be rescinded and that the authorities focus on the wrongdoers, not the vast majority of people through blanket measures such as 'dry trains'.
