• In fact, highway construction has often taken priority over building mass transportation systems.

    NPR: A Future Full of Pumped-Up Gas Prices?

  • Why should a cancer patient who has come from a GP take priority over a cancer patients from another consultant?

    BBC: Consultants' pay and hours: you asked an expert

  • He has stated that the terms of Ecuador's bond restructuring following the 1999 default were too favourable to bondholders and has hinted that social spending will take priority over debt servicing.

    ECONOMIST: Ecuador's radical new president promises big changes

  • Knight Ridder has always had a reputation for journalistic excellence as well as for making that value a priority over the bottom line--which is perhaps why Knight Ridder's financial performance has lagged that of its industry peers for years.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Madrid has already made fighting terrorism a top priority for when it takes over the presidency of the EU for the next six months, beginning on 1 January.

    BBC: EU targets terror groups

  • Given that the Labour Party, indeed all points left, have been arguing for decades that those other values must indeed be considered, even given priority over purely financial considerations, our conclusion simply has to be that they do not understand the effect of that new law that they propose.

    FORBES: Will The Labour Party Entirely Abolish Ethical Investing?

  • Overseas investment by Indians has been opened up, but only gradually, and with companies given priority over banks or individuals.

    ECONOMIST: Indian capital controls

  • An MSP has said that Highland Council should make upgrading the A890 Stromeferry bypass a priority over the controversial Inverness West Link.

    BBC: Stromeferry bypass

  • However, understanding the nature and extent of that gap can and has been refined and increased over time, and this should remain a high priority for both reformers and champions of the current free market system.

    FORBES: Every Accountant Tells a Story

  • Sir David Walker, who will take over from Agius in November, said the first priority since his election has been backing the search for a new chief.

    FORBES: Barclays Taps Retail Banking Chief Antony Jenkins For CEO Slot

  • Despite this, the 2006 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) on Literacy showed that adult literacy has been neglected all over the world, and suggested that it must be a higher priority for national and international agendas.

    UNESCO: Literacy learning and global development

  • "It is likely that the government will go into the next election having presided over an increase in secondary school class sizes during a period when the government's top priority has been education, " said the general secretary, John Dunford.

    BBC: Fall in infant class sizes

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