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In an address to the United Nations General Assembly in September, Trump made clear that his priority would be sovereignty rather than rights.
The first priority should be on outcomes.
A second priority is to improve data literacy.
A final priority is to bear in mind that digital technology is valuable only if it is being used to improve how systems function.
The US may now be ready to abandon the monetarist dogmas of central-bank independence and inflation targeting, and to restore full employment as the top priority of demand management.
Equally important are American actions that show the high priority that the US gives to the alliance, and its guarantees not to engage in what Japan fears will be “Japan-passing” in its relations with Asia.
A key priority must be to increase investment by creating a climate of trust.
In the United Kingdom, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee describes its expert advisory process as a “two-way dialogue” – with a priority placed on public accountability.
President Clinton has said that battling corruption is now Russia's priority; and the Swiss prosecutor's office has expressed its readiness to make all materials in the "Berezovsky case" available to Russia.
The question turns their relationship with the US president – service to whom has always been their top priority – on its head.
Moreover, in 2009, the Lebanese set World Trade Organization membership as a priority, and the proposed new free-trade agreement may not advance that goal.
As the Global Ocean Commission’s work comes to a natural conclusion, its many partners and supporters will be working hard to sustain this momentum, ensuring that building healthy and resilient oceans remains a global priority until it is a global reality.
This transpacific partnership has been an important priority for all four administrations.
But ending the dominance of the Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi), an Iran-sponsored umbrella of Shia militias, in areas vacated by the Islamic State (ISIS) is a top priority for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who has the backing of Iraq’s supreme Shia authority, Ali al-Sistani.
A high priority of the 5% Agenda is to assist in updating the national and regional regulatory frameworks that guide institutional investment in Africa.
What is needed, therefore, is a pledge by governments to make global trade liberalization a much higher political priority.
Nothing but the thinnest membrane of denial separates the notion of scientific immortality through priority of discovery from this deeper, older, and wholly non-scientific dream of escaping one’s own inevitable death.
Convincing the Chinese to wield that power must be world leaders’ top priority.
Unfortunately, given high inflation, structural adjustment has been postponed, with efforts to control credit expansion becoming the government’s first priority.
Last year, the Copenhagen Consensus – an esteemed panel of economists including several Nobel Laureates – ranked child nutrition as the top priority on its list of cost-effective investments that would improve global welfare.
Netanyahu has made Iran’s nuclear program his highest foreign-policy priority.
For the US, a concomitant problem is that Secretary of State John Kerry has made peace between Israel and Palestine a high priority.
I intend to help advance Korea-ASEAN relations while placing a high priority on the “people” – both Koreans and the people of ASEAN.
Demonstrable utility is the over-riding priority.
Under the Chinese presidency in 2016, the body made industrialization in Africa a high priority.
In both cases, the effective protection of human subjects should receive much higher priority, thereby justifying the modest added expense, which probably would amount to no more than 1-2% of the overall cost of clinical studies.
On the one hand, the government continued to provide transitory protection to firms in priority sectors; on the other, it liberalized the entry of private enterprises and foreign direct investment into the labor-intensive sectors that were consistent with China’s comparative advantage but were repressed in the past.
As production of these fuels grows, we will require policies, programs, and capacities that ensure that they are used sustainably, without distorting food markets or compromising food security, which will always be the first priority.
Voters, it seems, are less concerned about the direction Abe is taking the country than they are about his decision to make the issue a top priority.
A second priority will be to decide the fate of Nepal’s centuries-old monarchy.
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