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The first priority, after all, was to stabilize a highly dangerous situation.
A simple poverty map helps her track her progress by using the colors of the stoplight, red, yellow, and green, and highlight her priority areas.
Gorbachev hoped to use the Congress to exert pressure on the conservative party apparatus, but most deputies, even Communists, declared that the wishes of their electorate, not party committees, were now their priority.
In fact, there is near unanimity that fixing it is a top policy priority.
The priority should not be to protect those in power, but to ensure that survivors receive justice and the support to which they are entitled.
In fact, achieving greater diversity is crucial for protecting staff from sexual harassment, which is why we have made it a high priority.
These countries have made it a high priority to reduce rates of speeding, and they have taken steps to improve the safety of their roads, vehicles, drivers, and all others who use roads, including pedestrians and motorcyclists.
While governments in Africa are spending more on public infrastructure themselves, outside finance is still required, especially for regional projects, which are rarely a top priority for national governments.
The principle of pluralism is valuable, but curbing bloodshed deserves priority.
Of course, resolving the political crises and conflicts remains the top priority.
As for Turkey’s government, its official priority remains its own entry into the EU.
Addressing these issues, rather than just strengthening military and law-enforcement capacity, must be a high priority for any plausible strategy.
But, looking ahead, I believe that reducing the fiscal deficit should be a high priority after the 2018 congressional election.
So, for Europe, the most important priority now is to help to ensure stability and prosperity in the rest of Ukraine.
Priority should be given to investment in human capital, particularly education and health, and in job-creating sectors like agriculture.
According to them, this was a reminder that, with only a few exceptions – Cuba and possibly Mexico – Latin America was not a political priority for the US.
As Martin Sandbu notes, employment was the French electorate’s top concern and should be the new administration’s top priority.
Europe is our number one priority: stabilizing the eurozone and resolving its current crisis are essential to stability and economic recovery in France.
There is a fundamental conflict between the call to give priority to European needs and the dictates of member states’ constitutions, which cannot be resolved by gradually shifting competences de facto from the national to the European level, or by expanding the EU budget.
Today, the foremost priority should be dialogue itself: a renewal of the ability to interact, listen to, and hear one another.
This should be a top priority for governments and a goal embraced by citizens everywhere.
What, then, should be the top priority in the Middle East after the defeat of ISIS?
For others, a much more immediate priority is to contain Iran, which, in digesting its recent successes, is developing a larger appetite.
Things have clearly moved on from Copenhagen, when the priority was to reach agreement between those countries that have been chiefly responsible for global warming.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has said that a crackdown on corruption is a top priority, and that unless it reaches both “tigers” (higher-ups) and “flies” (lower-level officials), there may well not be another orderly leadership transition of the type that brought him to power earlier this year.
In making maintenance of a “rules-based global order” a core strategic priority, Australia’s new Defense White Paper adopts language not often found at the heart of national defense charters.
With these casualty figures, one would think that gun-control laws would be a much higher national priority in America than the far more loudly hyped fight against terrorism.
For existing vaccines, the top priority should be to ensure universal access, which will require a huge expansion in international coordination.
Instead of limiting deficits and debt, their top priority became cutting taxes – regardless of the consequences.
In her first visit to Beijing, indeed, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it clear that when it comes to China, order and stability take priority over human rights.
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