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So why has it suddenly become such a high priority to block him?
While Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, has suggested that Assad’s ouster is now a priority, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson insists that defeating the Islamic State (ISIS) still tops America’s agenda.
By substituting imports with domestic production, relying on government planning to target priority sectors, and implementing selective trade protection (for example, by imposing tariffs, quotas, and import licensing), they attempted to accelerate their transitions from raw-materials suppliers to manufacturing-based economies.
For the majority of Iranians, economic improvement is the priority.
With global demand flagging, the priority has to be recovery, without abandoning the goal of reform – a difficult line to tread politically.
Nine years after Barack Obama’s famous speech in Prague, in which he committed to seeking a world free of nuclear weapons, disarmament has ceased to be a strategic priority for the US (which, as the world’s biggest power, should lead efforts in this area).
In order to prevent humanitarian disasters resulting from war, the first priority is to respect the norms aimed at safeguarding civilians.
On a trip to Russia’s Asian port of Vladivostok, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev declared that the social and economic development of Russia’s Far East is a national priority.
Common rules to eliminate cross-border tax evasion, and thus erase this perception, should become a priority.
The world’s priority for the coming year must be to achieve peace in Syria, which will require close regional and international cooperation.
As a believer in an open society, I have made it my first priority for the last few years.
As a result, any country formulating strategies to counter the destructive forces of globalization should give overriding priority to a self-centred economic development strategy, preferably within a regional framework.
The ASEAN economies adopted a united front on international economic issues and accorded priority to internal economic integration and expanding linkages with major trading partners.
Latin American governments obstinately continue to give priority to fiscal discipline and controlling inflation in the hope of attracting foreign investors.
To maintain that independence, to fulfill our domestic and foreign policy priorities, the suppression of corruption must be my country's most urgent priority.
Big Reform in Small PackagesBRUSSELS – France, which now holds the presidency of the G-20, has chosen reform of the international monetary system as its main priority for the Cannes summit in November.
To prevent a regime imbued with an absolute ideology from gaining possession of the “absolute weapon” is Israel’s paramount priority.
It is clear, however, that restoring the functioning and confidence in the Asian banking system is a crucial priority.
Closing this education gap must be a top priority.
The Bank can regain its relevance only if it becomes practical once again, by returning its focus to financing public investments in priority sectors, just as the Chinese leadership is prepared to do.
And, if the problem is systemically risky derivatives trading in banks and elsewhere, then the priority given to derivatives traders over nearly every creditor ought to be curtailed.
As Sirleaf noted in her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, “rebuilding a nation nearly destroyed by war and plunder” was her greatest political priority.
As the Trump administration alters US foreign-policy priorities, devising a more effective strategy for America’s Afghan operations must be a priority.
Obama has that said he would send troops from Iraq as an urgent priority.
Instead of vainly trying to influence May’s hardline stance in the negotiations, the new priority should be to restart a rational debate about Britain’s relationship with Europe and to convince the public that this debate is democratically legitimate.
For many governments, both national and local, preventing crime is a far higher priority than encouraging friendship and cooperation.
And while Republican leaders, thinking that tax cuts take priority, are not ready to say aloud that they would be happy to see Trump gone, they have begun to make their discomfort with him somewhat more apparent.
This year, we got an answer: a new Five-Year Plan that makes environmental protection a priority.
Given the importance of reliable data, collecting it must be a high priority.
For example, education has been endorsed repeatedly as the highest development priority in UN My World Surveys.
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