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.
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.
These themes then served as a basis for more focussed, higher level recoding.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
At the same time, I have another female CEO who is focused on high level strategy and tends to orient the company [with] high-level vision as opposed to getting really deep down into the weeds.
Similarly, many of the educational workshops and tutorial materials in SNOMED CT available to date tend to focus on high level concepts and general approaches.
