Sentence examples for focusing world from inspiring English sources

The concern over AIDS, paradoxically, has created an opportunity by focusing world attention on Africa's miserable health care.

Ambassador Sergey Lavrov has shown Russia's frustration that Washington was insisting on focusing world attention on Iraq while Moscow faced an unfolding emergency.

International Women's Day 2014 has the theme 'inspiring change' and celebrates the social, political and economic achievements of women, while focusing world attention on areas that still need further action.

Since all UN members have promised to observe a fundamental "responsibility to protect" their citizens from war crimes and crimes against humanity, focusing world attention on such crimes in eastern Congo is perhaps the least outsiders can do.

But committee members believed in the inherent power of the Games — that they could foster change by focusing world attention on China, just as the 1988 Summer Games in South Korea helped advance that country's transition to democracy.

AIDS has highlighted the difficulty of delivering antiretroviral drugs to patients in poor countries, thereby focusing world attention on the underlying cause: a lack of effective health care infrastructures.

In 2000 the millennial Jubilee focused world attention on Vatican City.

The plight of these so-called "night commuters" helped to focus world attention on the crisis.

This has focused world attention on the polar regions, whose ice is melting at an alarming rate.

A man of wide culture and learning, he did not fit easily into the sharply focused world of scientific specialists.

(See the 1987 "Ernest Goes to Camp," for Jim Varney "shapin' and moldin' young minds into a focused world view").