Reaching a final settlement with the Osage Tribe on its trust accounting and trust mismanagement claims has been a priority for the Department of Justice and the Department of the Interior.

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He is trying to use the disaster to bypass co-operatives, whose priority rights over fishing along the coast, he claims, often put off private enterprise.

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The types of claims would depend on the overall amount of the fund, he said, with priority given to families of the dead.

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They are likely to give priority to the short-term claims of the public finances at the expense of impoverishing Argentines and their children in the future.

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Maidstone Borough Council claims the previous points-based system encouraged deprivation by giving priority to those on benefits.

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President Obama has told Congress it is a priority to reduce the number of backlogged claims at the VA, where claims are coming in at a faster rate than they can be processed.

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Prof Beard claims that the Miss World contest should no longer be a priority for feminists, but merely refers to her own comfort with her ageing body, and new-found personal tolerance of what she sees as the "bodily choices" of others.

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Regarding these claims, the NFL has repeatedly stated that player safety is a priority.

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In such cases, employees with a WARN claim have priority over other unsecured creditors, but stand behind secured claims by bondholders and the like, says Roupinian.

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Even under the new law, it is unclear whether lenders who step in after a bankruptcy have priority over old claims, undermining any incentive for a would-be backer to give a firm a second chance.

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