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.
Of course, the hard but essential task now will be to maintain the sense of priority and importance about indigenous issues once the front page splashes die away again.
Whenever the trigger event occurs, the ability goes on top of the stack the next time a player would receive priority .
For the time being, bushwacking will still be permitted, as will adventuring on unofficial boot trails, but protecting low-use zones will be a high priority.
It is intended that priority then will be given to obtaining planning consent for this Section.
to say they have priority is not to say they have complete hegemony
The dig, which began Monday, was a second priority for the divers, whose main goal was to survey the shipwreck site for storm damage.
That is the overriding priority and that is what he is good at. The Sun
The respect is designed in lamplight, indirect lighting combining direct lighting is given priority to, in order to emphasize the lobby of the space is concise, modern and metrical sense.
How likely is it that a twenty-first-century music giving priority to ‘new classical’ virtues will sit happily with forms of writing which retain ‘modernist’ perspectives on multivalence?
The social milieu to which her family belonged tended not to regard further education for women as a priority. Times, Sunday Times
Training was given a very low priority.
In addition to supporting their validity, it provides a clearer sense of the relation between infinitude, singularity, and whole - part priority, and of the status of space and time as infinite ‘givens.’
America's priority is rightly to stimulate its economy.
Perhaps Elie avoided this approach in order to give priority to his subjects' biographies and avoid any taint of academicism, both of which are commendable aims.
When hospital funds are being allocated children take priority.
The highest priority is the publication of a suite of up-to-date comprehensive guidebooks and map leaflets for the four gardens.
While most superminis spend the majority of their lives in town travelling at relatively low speeds safety is still a priority for many buyers - after all many find themselves on the school run.
Reducing class sizes should be a top priority.
The payment had the effect of conferring a preference, priority or advantage on those creditors over the other creditors.
As the entire public health care system in Poland is notoriously underfinanced, the rather costly methadone maintenance does not constitute a priority concern.
The answer that if most often given for not using technologies is lack of time which is another way of saying it is a too low priority to be done.
You also get a reserved seat and priority check-in and boarding. Times, Sunday Times
The Nevada Taxicab authority told 8 News Now last summer that longhauling is its number one enforcement priority. Las Vegas News - LasVegasNOW.com
These parts are usually assigned a lower priority, which often causes them to be delayed in shipment.
Her priority is to maintain an impenetrable veneer of normalcy, of successful, aspirational living while he longs to wake up from the monotony of his existence and start living again.
Priority should go to winter greens and leeks. The Sun
Those who wish more tax money to go to public works or welfare are free to make the argument that these expenses outweight the good done by other federal programs and therefore should take priority. MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration?
Your first priority is to identify exactly what it is you are trying to achieve with your golf swing.
When such releases occurred, priority had been evacuation of patients and emergency care.
Its first priority is to identify where permafrost is present and where mudslides and rockfalls are likely as it melts under the effect of global warming.
In the one-day game, the priority is to save every run, and it is the outfielder who assumes hey importance.
If you have an uncomfortable mattress make changing it a priority. Times, Sunday Times
This week Mr Prodi said a new electoral law was an " absolute priority ".
This may entail more effort, but should be seen as a priority. Times, Sunday Times
Her topmost priority is to incorporate practical aspects connected with all-round personality development at the school-level, in her institution.
The main priority will always be to find some route to additional funding for books.
Putting the zing back into the Knightsbridge store is her priority. Times, Sunday Times
Choosing unique roles has become his priority since his success was hard-earned.
The government should give top priority to rebuilding the inner cities.
The club's priority is to win the League.
Mrs Obama and Mrs. Biden both said military families are apriority to them, maybe we should send letters to their offices telling them how that would affect our families. A Policy Under Review - SpouseBUZZ
We have a robust clinical priority system for our operators to identify how serious the condition is.
Then burst his mighty heart," priority is given to a word embodying both predicate and copula. The Philosophy of Style
Giving priority to developmental work was appropriate in the circumstances of Nottinghamshire in the mid-eighties and still remains so in many respects.
The club's priority is to win the League.
It indicates waiting times for doctors and classifies them using three priority levels for patients and outpatients. Globe and Mail
If a high priority is placed on control, personnel officers will emphasize their role as watchdogs. Human Resource Management in Government
It found that a third of buyers said fuel efficiency was their main priority. Times, Sunday Times
The standard's description of option analysis lists the priority of risk control measures in Clause 6.2, subclauses a, b, and c.
What depresses me more is that for our young actors, skills like speaking verse properly and voice projection are no longer a priority.
Among the technologies being explored are transit vehicle priority at signalised intersections and the use of a mobile bus-mounted machine vision system for transit and traffic monitoring.
Charles was at their side, obviously love-stricken with both but undecided which one should have the priority. GOODBYE CURATE
The priority which this Government accords to older people was illustrated by the increases given to pensioners in my first two Budgets.
Getting food, medicine and blankets to flood victims is the most urgent priority.
It should be a crackerjack show with entertainment of the crowd the main priority.
Our priority is to position ourselves at a point equidistant from all predetermined boundaries.
For both, the top priority was to maintain permanently friendly relations with Indonesia; no other issue was to be permitted to disrupt the relationship.
Roman law gave a priority to the ius civile, the laws of the city of Rome itself, but there was also the ius gentium, recognitions of the indigenous laws of the gens, the tribes, the other peoples and cultures in the empire.
The priority now should be to reinvigorate representative democracy. Times, Sunday Times
The priority was to neutralize the borderlands against the Whites and foreign intervention, to ensure the military security of the Republic.
He has also stated that a new stadium for the club is a priority, which if anything is an understatement. What Now for Liverpool?
Let's challenge the yobbery and anti-social behaviour as a top priority.
The first priority of builders is the immediate surrounding environment, starting with the home and moving outward from there.
Every school accords high priority to the quality of teaching.
For health sectors to justify the large sums of money they will need if climate change does accelerate insect-borne disease, they must be able to convince governments that it is a high priority.
The newspaper gives priority to home news over international news.
To deal with priority debts - rent and mortgage arrears, heating and lighting.
The management did not seem to consider office safety to be a priority.
It was clear that, for the chauffeur at least, cars had priority over women.
But he made it a priority to be very, very philanthropic, very generous with his own money.
Priority booking for Institute lectures, seminars and courses.
An overarching priority is to reinforce professional staffing, which is much more profitable than clerical staff.
On a recent RN show on the History of China a big brain opined: In the relativy recent past the civillian population of China has had a gutful of anarchy and civil disorder, thus the population see niceties like freedom of speech/ association / faith as luxuries way way way down the priority scale compared to a more or less functioning society. Cheeseburger Gothic » Oily spin off topic.
The government has given top priority to reforming the tax system.
The data corresponds precisely to the situation described by Ashton etal's recruitment strategies with non-educational criteria taking priority over educational ones.
Beth's priority is the quality of her song-writing as opposed to the number of units sold.
Most important was his painting and sketching which always took priority. The Sun
As I said in response to the earlier question, we give our priority according to the chronological date on which the petitions were received, not the number of people who signed them.
Development of the sugar industry has been given high priority by both the Federal Government, for domestic food needs, and Jigawa and Bauchi States for local economic development. Fact Sheet On Us And Nigeria Expanding Trade And Investment
In an attempt to ward off criticism, the government has made education a priority.
It gave a higher priority to shipbuilding, food production and the manufacture of tanks and aircraft than to supplying drafts to the army. The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
Effective client onboarding continues to be a major priority and concern of our clients.
Because the threads execute identical code, they should have similar dynamic priority adjustments and execute in a round-robin fashion from the same run-queues.
State governments continue to attach a high priority to maintaining law and order and monitoring intercommunity relations at the district level.
‘But cleaning luminaires has not been a high priority with many users as maintenance budgets are reduced,’ says Frank.
Applicants with grade B driving license will be considered in priority.
The Cabinet last week said it was a priority to tackle the issue, but the new laws have not even been drafted yet and in reality haven't a ghost of a notion of affecting anything for at least another year.
He was even, ironically in light of the Simpson verdicts bearing down on him, placing his highest priority on education.
CHAMBLISS: Certainly, Wolf, the top priority is infiltrating terrorist organizations with human assets, people who work for us, rather than depending on what we refer to as liaison assets, people from other countries who work for other intelligence organizations, providing us with information. CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2003
Testing becomes a high priority given continuous integration of demonstrable capabilities.
Low achievers in schools will receive priority.
For example, if the title deeds are left with the company, an equitable mortgagee by deposit will take priority.
Those who cannot make their job the top priority become marginalized from centers of innovation and influence. Christianity Today
Therefore the wider circulation of such policy statements needs to be a priority in order to correct that misconception.
The first priority is to preserve the dignity of the palaces.
•Trouble spot:: With at least five new starters projected for an overhauled defense, fixing the run suppression is a priority. 'More consistent, more urgent' Falcons out to defy own history
Two years ago, the Tánaiste said her top political priority was reducing insurance costs.
When assigning priority to groups, atoms that are directly bonded to the carbon atom have their priority based upon their atomic number.
Media Training leading to the development of media talent in the advertising industry remains a high priority for Express in 1992.
There are two categories of ticket - pre-booked priority and walk-on.
Priority projects are double-decker commuter trains and more money for the West Coast line.
Buses have priority at this junction.
Education has been given a high-priority rating by the new administration.
Our first priority is to maintain the standard of work.
But if the strategic default or deviation from absolute priority rule is allowed, the decision that maximizes value of equity will be consistent with one that maximizes corporate value.
Some, including Mr Townsend himself, would give it an absolute priority.
At the priority date, the commonest absorbent was what is referred to as cellulosic fluff or fluff pulp.
In both 1988 and 1989, combatting racial violence has been a priority for the Metropolitan Police.
It was a damp squib, and its inevitable failure came about because its priority was not excellence, but money. Times, Sunday Times
He considered meeting her half way and warning her but decided that getting coffee into her grandfather had priority.
Simulation results illustrate that this strategy can reduce the outage of the low priority traffic and make full use of the limited channel resource.
Sometimes human rights will be given a very high priority; sometimes they will have to be subordinated to other interests.
It is organised as a non-profit charity with a priority placed on inclusion and education.
No matter how much you love the stone and broom game, when it takes priority in the biggest country in the Commonwealth, you can see why critics feel able to snipe.
Priority" indicates how important a requirement is to the business user.
Those who cannot make their job the top priority become marginalized from centers of innovation and influence. Christianity Today
Jump forward to today as this asshat is playing golf, eating cake and sucking up to billionaires while ignoring a situation that the rest of the world, anyone with a television or the internets, and even Mr. Bill saw coming, using torture to get confessions, shooting our own citizens, and giving photo ops priority over rescue efforts? Think Progress » Bush pledges no shared national sacrifice:
The router priority, which is only used on multiaccess networks such as LANs. OSPFRtrPri
Both onchocerciasis and malaria were given global priority for eradication, with global, regional, and national commitment in the form of political backing and financial and technical resources.
Nelken, who believes preventing agroterrorism should be a high priority, even thinks that security cameras should watch over unattended crops. CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006
The data corresponds precisely to the situation described by Ashton etal's recruitment strategies with non-educational criteria taking priority over educational ones.
The need to reopen negotiations on the issue must be a priority. Times, Sunday Times
This paper deals with the reliability computation of a reparable system of which the main unit possesses priority both in operation and maintenance.
Prompt response to all citizens' calls for assistance should be a priority.
Wherever we finish up, my top priority is to obtain the best deal for the members and within that I'd like to see healthy continuation of the protection business.
First priority when fishing in this way is to get the right floats for the job.
Thus we must resolve the academic and technical problems about the data models, transaction models, and priority assignment and schedule strategies of the mobile real-time transactions.
At home, our most important priority is to protect the homeland for the American people.
These priority projects are real, tangible evidence of the company's work.
Her first priority, though, is to have a few drinks at the cocktail party later tonight.
This is clearly an error as Miller and Gurley's younger name could not have priority over Meek and Worthen's older name, unless it was a replacement name for a homonym.
Maximizing the advantages and capably advocating the shared interests, policies and values of one Europe in a competitive and heteropolar world will require that priority attention and adequate resources be directed towards: FPIF Latest Content
Education has been given a high-priority rating by the new administration.
These include lottery systems, abolishing sibling priority for those who move away and setting up priority zones. Times, Sunday Times
He said although the provincial Treasury would love to save every cent possible, traffic policing, emergency vehicles and police visibility during this time of the year were a priority.
We wrote a lot of it in secluded, rural, upstate NY, and trying to fill every possible space with sound wasn't as much of a priority -- possibly in part because we could hear so much better. Jon Chattman: Entering The Orchard with Ra Ra Riot
Supporting and cementing these trading relationships must now be a top priority for business and government alike. Times, Sunday Times
Politicians often claim that human life is beyond economic calculation and must be given absolute priority whatever the cost.
A real priority in fatherhood is raising good kids. New daditude: Today's fathers are hands-on, pressure off
In the resource-searched sub-module it uses the limited depth-breadth priority algorithm to search the resources automatically. Thus the searching is self-determination and intelligence.
Sen claims it is essentially a matter of which variable is given priority that separates the major ethical systems and ideologies.
In certain cases, a prior mortgagee may make further advances to the mortgagor which will rank in priority to subsequent mortgages.
From one point of view, the rise of the new class involves the priority of thinking — not any thinking, however, but a technocratically foreshortened, instrumentalist, and administrative thinking — over the lifeworld of everyday interactions, communities, and traditions, and the orders of human nature. The Volokh Conspiracy » Telos Returns to ‘New Class’ Analysis and the Critique of the ‘Wholly-Administered Society”
The absolute priority in shady areas is tone rather than colour. Times, Sunday Times
Control of inflation remains the government's absolute priority.
We are looking for the best science wherever we can find it, with a special focus in our priority areas, such as biotherapeutics," explained Pfizer CEO Jeffrey Kindler. DrugResearcher RSS
And unless you happen to have existing problems that can be made worse by excess calcium, hypercalcemia or milk-alkali syndrome are not high priority worries. Milk-Alkali Syndrome
St. Louis: With postseason heroes RHPs Jeff Suppan and Jeff Weaver free agents, the rotation is the Cardinals 'top priority. National League outlooks for 2007
Where interaction is not a priority, programmes may be pre-recorded.
The Government gave priority to reforming the legal system.
The first priority was the addition of supplemental and enriching instructional resources for the individual special learner.
Lynne and her colleagues place a higher priority on preventive actions to discourage bad behaviour and crime.
In these circumstances, the appropriate bus priority treatment may be analysed using the predicted traffic conditions and bus patronage levels.
Changing those perceptions is the first priority for the Sudanese-born Magid, 45, who has earned high marks as an outgoing bridge-builder who heads the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, a congregation of 5,000 families in Sterling, Va., just outside Washington, D.C. Magid succeeds Ingrid Mattson, a soft-spoken but unflappable Hartford Seminary scholar who was elected as the group's first female and first convert president in 2006. Reclaiming Islam And Emboldening Muslim Women In America: 10 Minutes With Mohamed Magid
Perhaps surprisingly, Jerry Stackhouse did not make being on a title contending team his priority as he makes the slow treck to NBA's elephant burial grounds for older players. CelticsBlog
Booth gram tribulus display tremendous role, thus became opposite party to stare at against priority target.
The distinction from Rome concerns the absolute priority of the doctrine of God, compromised in Roman Catholic syntheses between nature and grace.
At a recent meeting between the two bodies they agreed that countering habitat loss is a high priority.
Martin Ferris's campaign is Sinn Féin's top priority but he isn't a dead cert because anything can happen in Kerry North.
Entering the Kingdom is by invitation only, and that invitation must be given top priority.
The Court fully understands and appreciates that the first priority of the executive branch in a time of crisis is to ensure the physical security of its citizens.
Most important was his painting and sketching which always took priority. The Sun
I've been an advocate of lifting the curfew for some time, and many of you probably know that it's been a matter of priority for the city council of the city of Baghdad as well as the district councils of Karkh and Karadah on either side of the river to get that bridge back open because of the trafficability (ph) challenges in Baghdad. CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2003
Her family were her priority and she was a wonderful loving and kind wife and mother.
French civil law considers priority as a incumbrance, when it inherit Roma law.
But to what extent does accepting such a universal or panoramic priority of nature over culture translate an idea of Alexander Pope into modern critical terms?
The first priority is to rebuild the area's manufacturing industry.
It was simply that domestic policy considerations took priority over humanitarian concerns.
Ninety-five per cent of members in our NOP survey said the main priority for the Government should be to ensure that all young people leave school literate and numerate.
But if the strategic default or deviation from absolute priority rule is allowed, the decision that maximizes value of equity will be consistent with one that maximizes corporate value.
There are 21 priority places available for students on the basis of their aptitude for the Performing Arts each year.
In 1988, the first geriatric ward was set up in the GH, but even then, geriatric medicine enjoyed very little priority.
If a high priority is placed on control, personnel officers will emphasize their role as watchdogs. Human Resource Management in Government
One priority of the center is to develop efficient agricultural systems for agroforestry - the simultaneous production of animal forage, crops, and lumber on the same land.
For drug addicts, the need to feed the addiction takes priority over everything else.
The search for a new vaccine will take priority over all other medical research.
If there has to be a priority, I tend to think that it should be earlier detection. Times, Sunday Times
In order to avoid disputes, the sale agreement should specify the priority to be given to each of these rules.
Some might argue that "believability" isn't exactly a priority that needed to be so high in a movie about a man who dresses like a bat to fight evil clowns. Columbia is Definitely Rolling Forward With Ghost Rider 2; Daredevil and Silver Surfer Projects Confirmed | /Film
The pro-choice movement puts the freedom to choose as their top priority.
If they are, these words are given priority over the other alternatives available for each word position.
Safety was briefed and stressed from the very beginning as the number one priority when transporting, unpacking, and inventorying pallets.
The dividends are usually paid in priority to dividends on all other shares except for preference shares.
Control of inflation remains the government's absolute priority.
Money replaces craft as the overriding priority. Times, Sunday Times
Most important was his painting and sketching which always took priority. The Sun
Follow up work will focus on assessment of priority kimberlite targets and additional evaluation of the most prospective of the lamprophyre breccias. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
The report notes: 'The desire to pursue longstanding political antagonism is being given priority over improvements to services for the public. Times, Sunday Times
The differential between the New Zealand and Australian corporate tax regimes needed to be addressed as a ‘matter of priority’.
So my priority is to leave at least something to my daughters and grandsons when I go. Times, Sunday Times

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