If approved, it would make reducing levels of gender-based violence a U.S. foreign policy priority.
The foreign secretary added that Afghanistan was the government's "top foreign policy priority".
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Mr Bush himself has claimed that his other top policy priority is the consolidation of democracy and free markets in the Americas.
The recent white paper makes a cut in federal spending to under 20% of GDP (from an estimated 23% in 2012) its policy priority.
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And just about everyone agrees it is a serious policy priority.
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In creating this new State Department position, Secretary Clinton underscored that empowering women is a moral, economic, and ultimately a critical foreign policy priority for the United States.
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An indefinite postponement is less worrying to Ehud Barak than it would have been in his first months as Israel's prime minister, when peace with Syria was his foreign-policy priority.
Yet whatever Mr Cameron's personal views, his party sees environmentalism as an indulgent luxury: in a poll, Tory MPs ranked climate change as the lowest policy priority for a Tory government.
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Ask any Mexican politician what his country's foreign-policy priority must be, and the response is the same: maintain good relations with the United States and improve the lot of migrants headed north.
Russia, the world's ninth-largest economy, is seeking to diversify away from oil and gas and under President Vladimir Putin has made developing its manufacturing base, particularly the Russian car industry, an economic policy priority.
With growing intolerance for fraudulent and corrupt business practices around the world and grassroots calls for greater corporate transparency, robust whistleblower alternatives to address corrupt and unethical business practices should be a universal policy priority.
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The cultural policy priority areas are diverse, but in Cambodia, the development will focus on empowering cultural governance system through the establishing information and documentation infrastructure, supporting continuous professional development of public and private partners, and identifying new programme areas necessary for the development of the creative industries.
His refugee policy gave priority to displaced Croats, though even these he sometimes sought to move to areas where their presence would alter the ethnic balance.
The President made reference to the Humboldt National Park as an example of the Government's policy to give priority to the protection of the environment.
Clearly, if the goal of politicians and other activists is to protect the lives of America's youth, the presence and use of guns is the priority that policy must address.
Deliberations in the forthcoming HLG meeting in Dakar, Senegal (11-13 December 2007) will be informed by this new Report and also by the main discussion points on EFA policy, strategy and priority-setting prepared by the Working Group.
That is why discouraging and treating addiction should be the priority for drug policy.
And, in fact, his priority and his policy is to make sure that we cover poor kids first.
Putting more money in the pocket of responsible citizens who are motivated to spend should be the priority of government policy-makers.
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His choice is that those with the most growth potential will take priority on this policy, as has happened with Whitehall's enterprise zones.
If indeed it does, then biodiversity should increasingly become a priority issue in economic policy-making and business strategies.
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One is that, with the cold war over, shoring up the multilateral trading system is no longer seen as a top priority for American foreign policy.
It is also to signal to Singaporeans that they will receive top priority on all housing policy matters, as it should be for citizens of any country.
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Conducted by professional trainers and the 2005 Convention Secretariat, the workshop will cover priority areas such as policy-making skills and approaches to strengthening the cultural and creative industries at the national and regional levels, as well as the 2005 Convention Periodic Reports.
In the priority area of law and policy reform, the mission report highlights three areas where actions are needed.
The coalition has blamed Mr. Bloomberg for discontinuing a long-standing policy of giving people in homeless shelters priority for public-housing programs in June 2005.
Seth Diamond, the commissioner of the city Department of Homeless Services, said it was "bad public policy" to give people in shelters priority for public housing.
The Final Recommendations identified priority objectives for the National Ocean Policy.
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The Bank and the Fund also believe that the conditions they place on debt relief cajole countries into beneficial policy reforms, such as putting a higher priority on health and education.
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