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How To Use priority In A Sentence

• A series of enervating campus visits is marked by interchangeably chirpy undergraduate tour guides united by their ability to walk backward while extolling the school's a capella groups and reassuring parents about the high priority placed on security. A Craving for Acceptance
• Both names are unobjectionable, but as the term Caddo has priority by a few pages preference is given to it. Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891
• ‘The council operates a priority order for gritting roads and footpaths,’ a spokesman said.
• Our first priority is to improve standards.
• The commanding general wishes to talk to her himself, but it is of low priority, with the fight so close at hand.
• They may not agree that evangelizing the unchurched is a higher priority than worship and nurture. Navigating the Winds of Change
• Many cinema groups offer membership schemes with priority booking. Times, Sunday Times
• Massive investment in research and development; Put in place an industrial policy that prepares for the future and reduces the risks of delocalization; Support small and medium-sized businesses through the creation of regional participation funds and by reserving for them a percentage of public contracts; Give priority to business investment by lowering tax where the profit is reinvested and increasing it where it is distributed to shareholders. Archive 2007-02-01
• There is a shortage of Olympic-size pools and most of these are run on commercial lines, so British swimming cannot afford priority access.
• The payments will be staggered, giving priority to child support grants in June, old-age grants and war veterans in July, disability grants and grants-in-aid in August and foster-care grants in September.