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Though the US and its allies enjoy overwhelming technological advantages – a reality that had long worried Chinese leaders – China took it almost as a given that the US would continue to place a high priority on conflict avoidance.
While food, medicine, and shelter come first, education must be a high priority.
Preventing it from becoming so should be a top priority today.
The Lancet Commission calls on national and municipal governments, international donors, major foundations, civil-society groups, and health professionals to make pollution control a much higher priority than it is now.
The first priority is to promote and accelerate innovation, indicating that Chinese leaders understand that the previous growth model, with its reliance on cheap labor, has now run out of steam.
The second priority is improving the quality of products and services.
And the final priority is investment in human capital and talent development.
Another priority for investment is the establishment of effective early-warning systems for natural disasters in developing countries.
By ensuring that the pursuit of new knowledge remains a high priority, Europe can safeguard the scientific revolution and retain a leading edge globally, despite having fewer people than other regions.
That is why addressing consumption bias must be the highest priority over the next few years.
Development of zero-emission public transit, therefore, is rarely a top priority for government leaders.
Indeed, law and order must be the top priority of the unity government, owing to the need to restore the Palestinian public’s faith in Palestinian leaders from all factions.
Specifically, this agenda should include countering terrorism and violent extremism; enhancing cyber security; limiting the proliferation of lethal autonomous-weapons systems; enforcing international humanitarian law in the context of war (an absolute priority); and developing a comprehensive approach to planetary boundaries and humanity’s ecological footprint, particularly in our oceans.
More broadly, the UN culture must change – perhaps with a new reward structure – to give priority to operations in the field, rather than to operations at headquarters; to implement reports’ recommendations, rather than just writing more reports; and to measure results on the ground, rather just counting the number of UN conferences held.
The first priority should be international banks.
The second priority should be defining a strict emerging-market standard for regulating foreign banks after they are allowed in.
But, given Germany's economic distress, which looks likely to worsen given the country's demographic problems, the Social Democrats are now condemned to give wealth creation priority over redistribution.
A handful of influential ADB bureaucrats with large salaries, secured pensions, comprehensive health insurance, subsidized housing, and education for their children, have apparently decided that financing subsidized housing, health, nutrition, and child protection programs is not a priority.
Nor do they consider land reform, employment services, or pensions for all Asians a priority.
In thestep-by-step order of the transformation towards a marketeconomy, full convertibility is not a priority.
But that should not surprise anyone: the North Korean regime has always been committed to making military power the "first priority" in the state budget.
It would be difficult for the US to change the highest priority of its own national security strategy--preempting terrorism and fighting the spread of weapons of mass destruction--especially with another nuclear threat looming in Iran.
Legal professionals – including police, prosecutors, and judges – should make human trafficking a criminal-justice priority.
That a renewed Atlanticism would be a priority for either Obama or Huckabee is extremely doubtful, however.
When a girl holds a book up to an insurgent’s gun in Pakistan, when teenage mothers exiled from South Sudan in neighboring Uganda make education for their children their top priority, and when lights seen from space might include clusters of children huddled by candlelight trying to read and study, we know that education’s moment has come.
Should it give priority to “the value of geography” or to “the geography of values”?
According to sociologists, female leaders are of two schools: Queen Bees, who are less likely to help other women advance, and Righteous Women, who make the advancement of other women a priority.
In April, the EU pledged €3 billion ($3.4 billion) to support Syrian refugees in Turkey, and education has been listed as a top priority – a mark of recognition for all those who fought to bring the issue to the table.
In Prime Minister Li Keqiang’s annual Work Report – the official statement of economic policy – emphasis on the consumer-led structural transformation has been downgraded in each of the last two years (ranked third in both 2016 and 2017, as so-called supply-side initiatives have gained higher priority).
High priority should go to eliminating the thousands of petty, nuisance regulations and laws on the books in most countries which do more harm than good, and that also encourage bribery and other efforts to unfairly influence government officials.
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