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With another general election due next year, civil-society groups preferred that priority be given to lowering the 10% electoral threshold for parties to enter parliament, thus broadening political participation.
Classroom learning should be given high priority, to help provide a protective and stable environment for the youngest refugees.
This also means that peace-related programs should get priority in budget allocations.
Any transition to peace may well prove ephemeral unless policymakers make political reconciliation and integration – not optimal economic policies – the bedrock priority.
Responsible and relevant reporting is not the priority in that business model.
Because we understand that children learn better when they have strong support systems behind them, we also work with parents and community members to make education a higher priority.
Barack Obama trumpeted it during his State of the Union address in January, and European leaders from the Tory David Cameron in Britain to the Socialist José Luis Zapatero in Spain to Japan’s new Minister of Economics Kaoru Yosano have embraced it as a priority.
Countries with planned economies argued that the need for survival superseded the aspiration to freedom, so that access to basic necessities included in the basket of economic, social, and cultural rights should take priority in policy and practice.
In practice, this discrepancy created a category of “alpha” rights – civil and political – that took priority in the influential and wealthy countries’ domestic and foreign policy agendas.
The highest technological priority is to develop batteries for transport that are cheaper, longer-lasting, faster-charging, and lighter.
His secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, underscored this tendency during her first visit to China, where her unmistakeable message was that order and stability take priority over liberty and human rights.
The lesson, therefore, is that Italy’s key priority should be to revive growth.
Settling the status of Jerusalem – as two cities, one for Israelis and one for Palestinians – must be made a priority if peace between the two sides is ever to be achieved.
Israel’s immediate neighbors and other regional powers should make settling the status of Jerusalem a priority, before security in the city deteriorates further.
Troubled economies need structural reforms, but macroeconomic recovery programs are the immediate priority.
Yet the top priority for the leader of a fragmented state is to gain and consolidate a monopoly on the legitimate use of lethal force.
But making global warming the world’s top priority means that we shuffle other major challenges down our “to do” list.
For example, the new Israeli transplant law provides incentives for people to sign a donor card by giving them and their relatives priority on transplant waiting lists.
After an act of despair such as what Poland witnessed this month, the first priority should be to mourn the victim.
People suffer because relieving pain is not a public policy priority.
First, targeted investment should be given priority.
Second, young people must be a top priority.
In the heyday of the gold standard, Frieden argues, mainstream political actors had to downplay social reform and national identity because they gave priority to international economic ties.
Fiscal reform must also be a high priority.
But speeding up growth remains a priority.
At the moment, eurozone reform talks are not a priority for leaders in France, Germany, or anywhere else.
And two recent studies commissioned by Standard Chartered Bank indicate that the growing ranks of the affluent view education as a top priority.
The second study showed that high-net-worth African business owners accorded education the highest priority in their charitable activities, with more than 90% already engaging in education-related philanthropy.
America’s main priority now is to ensure that the peace treaty with Israel is maintained.
Whereas the US and Europe approach development from a poverty-reduction and good governance standpoint, China places a higher priority on supporting infrastructure development as part of its industrial policy.
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