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When the Greeks voted “no,” they reaffirmed their democracy; but, more than that, they asserted the priority of their democracy over those in other eurozone countries.
A realignment of US military forces in Japan is needed, with priority given to relocating the Futenma US Marine Corps base on Okinawa, which houses half of the 47,000 US troops in Japan.
A stronger, wider EU must be our priority.
Egypt, he said, understood the importance of democracy and human rights, but avoiding turmoil must be the government’s highest priority.
This suggests that China’s “new normal” will be the government’s top priority this year.
Developing a new approach – based on a broad, systemic perspective – should become a top priority of those with the capacity to deliver change, including CEOs and senior public officials.
Over the last decade, improving governance and fighting corruption has been seen as a high priority by governments, civil society, the private sector, and the international community.
So maintaining that government in office has now become a strategic priority for Iran, particularly as it is now clear that any US hopes of using Iraq as a permanent military base are dead.
A second priority is to address women’s underrepresentation in business leadership circles.
A third priority is to improve women’s access to digital technology, which can open countless economic (and social) doors – including into finance.
A fourth priority is to change social attitudes about gender roles.
The final priority is to pursue more regional collaboration to achieve gender equality.
A few have done so because they are making careers as party-line Republicans, so their priority is to tell Republican politicians what they want to hear (Josh Bolton and Mitch Daniels come to mind here).
In the West, the priority accorded to the individualist self-regarding norms underlying the Washington Consensus created a nurturing environment for growth in corruption, inequality, and mistrust in governing elites – the unintended consequences of rational-choice, me-first premises.
Some of this funding would undoubtedly be channeled to the area that the World Bank client surveys indicate is the greatest priority: education.
For the millions of workers – and especially young people – with no job prospects, fiscal sustainability simply cannot be the only priority.
Twenty years ago, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources classified the Niger Delta as a region of high biodiversity of marine and coastal flora and fauna – tree species, fish, birds, and mammals, among other forms of life – and therefore rated it as a very high priority for conservation.
President Bush has made this his top priority; for as long as he is in the White House, he will not waver in this pursuit and neither will his people.
Accompanying inclusive growth, the second challenge is skill development, for which a performance-oriented education system must become a top priority.
The EU may well have avoided significant constitutional tensions had its member states' governments initiated such programs much sooner;restructuring of existing regional and continental groupings in order to give priority to increasing the volume of intra-Regional trade.
No surprise, then, that regional stability has emerged as a high priority for Europeans.
Europe’s strong support for the region’s economic development must remain the top priority, as Arab countries introduce necessary reforms.
Should we make air pollution our top priority?
Priority sectors are typically chosen for their job-creation, investment, and export potential, and for their access to necessary raw materials.
A high priority should be given to increasing pro-poor fiscal transfers.
Climate negotiators should also give CO2 capture and storage (CCS) high priority.
Education is now recognized as a national priority.
Reordering the political agenda would position Palestinians’ civil and human rights as the highest priority, and leave for later discussions the structure and form of the state itself.
But all of this would require extraordinary patience on the part of the Workers' Party and its supporters, whose hopes must be deferred as immediate priority is given to appeasing the bond market.
In fact, Hun Sen, like other Southeast Asian autocrats, now seems to believe that he has political carte blanche, given the low priority that US President Donald Trump has placed on human rights.
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