Their fundraising and institutional arrangements are designed to focus high-level attention on the problems that they exist to address.
Obama's initiative in launching the nuclear security summit process in Washington in 2010 helped focus high-level attention on nuclear security issues.
The breakfast meeting provided an opportunity to focus high-level attention on this issue; to highlight the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence against Children; and to renew commitments to implementing the recommendations of the Secretary General's Study on Violence Against Children.
These themes then served as a basis for more focussed, higher level recoding.
Throughout history, the United States has focused high-level diplomatic attention to ensure that there are diverse sources of fuel — even far from our shores.
"Chancellor Merkel's initiative, by focusing high-level attention on the Transnistria conflict, can help achieve the first serious negotiations in years," said an O.S.C.E.
"President Obama is focusing high-level attention on the threat that already exists out there, and that's tremendously important," said Sam Nunn, the former Democratic senator from Georgia who has devoted himself to safeguarding global stockpiles of weapons material — enough, by some estimates, to build more than 100,000 atom bombs.
A Treasury official pointed out that the gatherings focused high-level attention on the currency problem, and ended with an agreement for the I.M.F. to play a greater role in monitoring its members' exchange-rate practices and the "spillover effects" of each country's economic policies on the rest of the world.
And above all, we must round up world leaders not merely for a Nuclear Security Summit to shore up civilian nuclear materials, but for a Nuclear Weapons Summit that for the first time focuses high-level political actors on the end game: the phased, verified elimination of all nuclear weapons globally.
"We're giving everyone the opportunity to register but we do have power sellers becoming the focus of high level media scrutiny.
(The focus on high level 'Big-O' approximations only seems fitting for this piece).
