Meanwhile Cruz, hoping to emerge as Trump's only rival for the nomination, focused his efforts on Illinois, making five stops in a last-minute attempt to rack up as many delegates as possible.
In contrast with previous years, prime-time Emmy nominations focused, to some degree, on relative newcomers like "Six Feet Under" -- which led with 23 nominations -- and HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm".
Current heritage management and the proposal for a UNESCO nomination focus on the architectural heritage, commemorative monuments and military cemeteries, thereby overlooking the opportunities to acknowledge the conflict landscape in its totality.
Taking only oblique swipes at Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, his chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Mr. Obama focused on his reasons for seeking the presidency, pledging to take on issues like global warming, education, jobs and foreign trade.
Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, lamented the Democratic success in blocking Mr. Estrada's nomination and focused on Mr. Obama's votes against Republican judicial nominees with similar credentials because of their judicial philosophy.
Some of the criticism surrounding his nomination has focused on whether the United States should continue to retain control of the bank by a decade's old gentlemen's agreement, particularly in light of two widely respected emerging-market candidates, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Nigerian finance minister, and José Antonio Ocampo, a native of Colombia and former United Nations official.
And as an advocate, he argued no fewer than 39 cases before the Supreme Court.Opposition to Mr Roberts's nomination has focused on his views, inasmuch as they can be discerned from mountains of old memos he wrote while a government lawyer and a short list of rulings as a judge.
The list and the nomination were focused on architectural styles, which are based on building material, the silicate brick, used in Israel throughout the years 1918 1948.
The debate over Sotomayor's nomination has focused on the notion of empathy and whether a judge should have any.
