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All this happened only days before the G8 meeting in St. Petersburg, where the issue of Iran’s nuclear ambitions was a main priority.
A key priority for advanced economies is to continue the process of fiscal adjustment that most of them initiated this year.
The first priority is to get the number of Ebola cases to zero and keep it there.
Ahead of the G8 summit in Scotland in July, a coalition of non-governmental organizations has launched the “Global Call to Action Against Poverty,” and the UK host has made Africa a top priority.
Yet, welfare state reform is not a priority of right-wing populists.
Libya’s Shadow on Sovereign Wealth FundsNEW YORK – As Libya’s citizens rebuild their lives and economy, undoing the corruption in the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), the sovereign wealth fund in which Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime allegedly stashed and misused Libya’s oil wealth, is becoming a priority.
The WTO framework, to which the EU has always given priority, is increasingly recognized as being fundamental to our prosperity.
Reaching agreement on climate change is an immediate priority for all of us.
But, by this February, Obama was saying of Iran that “my number-one priority continues to be the security of the US, but also the security of Israel, and we continue to work in lockstep as we proceed to try to solve this…”That choice of words was no accident; rather, it was a sign that the US is changing tack when it comes to Iran.
Singapore eventually managed to develop a highly skilled base of indigenous talent by making large investments in education and setting completion of post-secondary study as a national priority.
Simply put, whoever is US president, his or her program will have priority.
Nonetheless, the economist Alex Cobham insists that that curbing such flows should be a high priority.
For him, preserving peace was certainly important, but making Europe a global player was the priority.
The priority in everyone's minds is the present conflict; but until human well being becomes a universal priority, conflicts will continue to dominate interpersonal and international relations.
Priority should go to cooperative projects--enhancing cooperation between different faiths, between different schools within the same faith, and between religious and secular groups.
By contrast, a capital-adequacy target of 7% and a CO2 target of 550 ppm would demonstrate policymakers’ willingness to place a higher priority on short-term gains – even if that means allowing another financial crisis or global warming’s long-term economic and human consequences to manifest themselves.
After all, money spent on one priority is not available for others.
There are as many opinions about what should be the top priority for funders as there are options.
So tackling any obstacles that could inhibit the effective application of these additional resources is a priority.
Fiscal discipline should be a priority, not an afterthought.
And they are placing a high priority on investments in critical areas, including education, basic health care, and increased agricultural productivity – the building blocks of a self-sufficient and prosperous future.
That is because the Board’s plan gives priority to the island’s creditors.
They have rightly given the eurozone crisis – the central question bearing on the European Union’s future – top priority.
To accelerate economic growth, the priority has been to stimulate investment and recovery in manufacturing, the sector that was hardest hit by the international crisis.
Now, after decades of turf wars and self-marginalization, international organizations must rally around an increasingly pressing global priority: sustainable urbanization.
Given that promoting sustainable urbanization and improving coordination would bolster progress in other priority areas (including women’s rights, climate change, youth unemployment, and literacy), sustainable urbanization must become a bureaucratic priority.
Making sustainable urbanization a strategic priority might be the only way to overcome the interrelated crises of jobless growth, youth unemployment, and income inequality.
For both men, the goal of clinging to power was a top priority.
The goal of clinging to power remains the priority, and risk-aversion the main guideline.
Whereas French intentions to reform the international monetary system had initially been received skeptically, suddenly reform looks like the right priority at the right time.
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