Sentence examples for central efforts from inspiring English sources

President Mohammad Khatami, who has made the rule of law one of his central efforts, has publicly taken responsibility for protecting the rights of Iran's official religious minorities, which include Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians.

As noted in other settings [ 29, 43], central efforts, such as target setting, that seek both to contain the discretionary power of street level bureaucrats and direct it towards imposed goals often have unexpected consequences.

The partnership's Global Plan to Stop TB 2006 2015, one of its central efforts, is a comprehensive survey of the steps and resources the Stop TB partners believe will be needed to make the greatest impact on the global TB burden.

The planning for a transition of the Afghanistan mission is a central effort among the Pentagon's civilian planners and the military's Joint Staff, as well as among officers at the United States Central and Special Operations Commands.

Fixing, or at least mitigating, the worst effects of rich nations' farm subsidies is supposed to be the central effort of the ongoing "development round" of World Trade Organization talks.

Those emergency measures, carried out by a small squad of workers and firefighters, represent Japan's central effort to forestall a full-blown fuel meltdown that would lead to much higher releases of radioactive material into the air.

A central effort of this emerging field is the design of modular biological parts that facilitate both the ease of manufacture and the design of predictable function in cells.

(iv) GoSynthetic: Artificial design in protein engineering (iv) GoSynthetic: Artificial design in protein engineering Introduction of artificial new circuits with new properties is a central effort in synthetic biology.

The liberal character of the basket is further illustrated by the fact that there is no systematic and central effort to use common criteria for defining the package as a whole.

It has been central to efforts to expose the tax avoidance habits of private companies.

Central bank efforts to unfreeze the money markets seem to be taking an inordinate amount of time to filter through.