In 2008, Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif urged the two countries to focus on two specific projects: the Aljazera project which aims to cultivate some two million acres ( 8, 000 km² ) of land in Sudan, and a joint project to improve food security in agricultural and meat production.

Savoie quoted an anonymous minister from the Liberal Party as saying Cabinet had become " a kind of focus group for the Prime Minister ," while Simpson called cabinet a " mini-sounding board ".

In 2008, Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif urged the two countries to focus on two specific projects: the Gezira Scheme which aims to cultivate some two million acres ( 8, 000 km² ) of land in Sudan, and a joint project to improve food security in agricultural and meat production.

Derek Rayner, the former chief executive of Marks and Spencer, was appointed as an efficiency expert with the Prime Minister's personal backing ; he identified numerous problems with the Civil Service, arguing that only three billion of the eight billion pounds a year spent at that time by the Civil Service consisted of essential services, and that the " mandarins " ( senior civil servants ) needed to focus on efficiency and management rather than on policy advice.

Various Prime Ministers such as Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Robert Borden, John Diefenbaker, and Pierre Trudeau have attempted to reasonably distance Canada from the United States to focus on self-sufficiency while maintaining good relations, while other Prime Ministers such as Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Louis St. Laurent, and Brian Mulroney attempted to integrate with the Americans on an economic level and strived for close political relations hoping to enlarge markets.

; Subaru Prime Focus Camera ( Suprime-Cam ): 80-megapixel wide-field visible-light camera, mounts at the prime focus.

While Shang Yang ( the Prime Minister of Duke Xiao of Qin ) would allow rulers to listen to musical instruments rather than focus on foreign policy, Han Fei ( the Legalist scholar most admired by the First Qin Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi ) demanded more of the wise ruler.

The party had received little media attention during the election and 2000 as a whole, due to the media's focus on Canada's newest political party, the Canadian Alliance, the political comeback of former Prime Minister Joe Clark to the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party, and the leadership feud within the Liberal Party between Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin.

When the Tangentopoli investigation focused on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Di Pietro became the focus of a slander campaign and strong political pressure, leading him to resign from the judiciary.

When Turnbull succeeded to the dual role on 2 September 2002, Prime Minister Tony Blair asked him to focus on the management of the civil service, and to make its reorganisation his priority.

Najib entered office as Prime Minister with a focus on domestic economic issues and political reform.

The 16th Commonwealth Games was officially opened by the 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia's Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad on 11 September 1998 at 17: 30 MST ( UTC + 08: 00 ) as main focus for the games and the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies was the newly built National Stadium Bukit Jalil a 100, 000-spectator capacity stadium it was officially opening ceremonies a vocalist in theme song's " Malaysiaku Gemilang " was sung by sung by Malaysian pop singers here Norzila Binti Haji Aminuddin, Shahrul Anuar Zain, Siti Roziana Binti Zain, Shaheila binti Abdul Majid, Amy Mastura Binti Suhaimi, Ning Baizura binti Sheikh Hamzah, Siti Nurhaliza Binti Tarudin, a featured 15-sports in 3638-events and 70-countries of region in Commonwealth of Nations.

The line was the focus of a brief war in 1962, when Indian and Chinese forces struggled to control land where, " not even a blade of grass grows ," as Indian Prime Minister Nehru put it.

With the launch of the cable channel DejaView ( also owned by Canwest ) in 2001, showing similar programming to Prime ( 1960s, 1970s and 1980s programming ), the channel's focus shifted to its current format of shows from the late 1980s and beyond.

In addition to these and other battles with Cyclonus, Magnus also found himself facing Galvatron on several occasions-the deranged Decepticon would even occasionally focus his rage more upon Magnus than Rodimus Prime ; such a notion is not inappropriate, since Magnus was the being he was originally dispatched to destroy, and who thwarted him in varying ways, certainly enough to permanently earn the deranged Galvatron's ire.

The f / 3. 29 Prime focus, used with the WFC, allows an unvignetted field of view of 40 arcminutes ( approximately 0. 3 square degrees ).

The Bale revolt, a peasant revolt stemming from issues involving land, taxation, class, and religion, raged in the province for several years until a number of developments took the energy out of the militants, as well as the decision of Somali Prime Minister Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal to focus his country's resources on economic development.

With Indian independence, despite the continuing work of Vinoba Bhave in encouraging grassroots land reform, India under its first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru adopted a mixed-economy approach, mixing elements of socialism and capitalism. During the fifties and sixties, India ran a massive community development programme with focus on rural development activities through government support.

On 15 February 1994, the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, a body intended to focus on researching " the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart muscle diseases ", was launched by Prime Minister Paul Keating with Kerry Packer as its patron.

Dr. Wan Azizah served as a government doctor for 14 years before deciding to focus on volunteer work, when her husband, Anwar Ibrahim was appointed the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia in 1993.

These sequences were made primarily to give the much-hyped Powermaster Prime figure as much additional focus as possible, given that no new full-length episodes were in production.

Following these strong economic reforms, and a strong focus on developing national infrastructure such as the Golden Quadrilateral project by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the then Prime Minister, the country's economic growth progressed at a rapid pace with very high rates of growth and large increases in the incomes of people.

Abd al-Karim Qasim: 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq, in office 14 July 1958 – 8 February 1963. Beginning in the early 1950s, as the strength of nationalism in Iraq grew, the focus came to bear on foreign control over the oil production of the country.

* 1968 – Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.

* 1902 – Louis Beel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1977 )

* 1924 – Raymond Barre, French politician, Prime Minister of France ( d. 2007 )

* 1803 – Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and statesman, 10th Prime Minister of Prussia ( d. 1879 )

* 1908 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland ( d. 1970 )

* 1949 – António Guterres, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal

* 1955 – Dimitra Liani, Greek air hostess, widow of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou

* 1959 – Stephen Harper, Canadian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada

* 1918 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 2001 )

* 1928 – Péter Boross, Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary

* 1966 – Juhan Parts, Estonian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Estonia

* 1765 – Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 1848 )

* 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician and journalist, 8th Prime Minister of Malta ( d. 2012 )

* 1944 – Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician, 9th Prime Minister of Bangladesh

* 1961 – John Key, New Zealand politician, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand

* 2010 – Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece ( b. 1927 )

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

* 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia ( d. 2003 )

* 1856 – Alfred Deakin, Australian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1919 )

* 1964 – Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thai politician, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand

* 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.

* 1972 – Laurent Lamothe, Haitian businessman and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Haiti

* 1913 – Menachem Begin, Israeli politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1992 )

* 1944 – Perry Christie, Bahamian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Bahamas

* 1952 – Jiří Paroubek, Czech politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic