It is top priority as a country, but not a top priority for investment.
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Patil says protecting this endangered population needs to be a priority for the country.
Our top priority as a country right now should be doing everything we can to grow our economy and create good, middle class jobs.
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Polishing China's global image is a priority for a country that craves the international respect it feels it deserves as the world's second largest economy.
"When a crisis happens, the first priority for a country such as Thailand should be to stay clear of the IMF (in its present form), " they write.
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When that is done, Congress must turn to the most important economic priority for our country, and that's making sure the tax relief that is now in place is not taken away.
Yemeni Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi told his divided nation on Tuesday that his priority as the country's next head of state will be to foster national reconciliation among separatists in the south and insurgents in the north and usher in more democratic political overhauls.
Letta said last week that the most important priority is tackling the country's 11.6% unemployment rate, which has pushed many young Italians to leave the country.
In 1997, for example, improving the National Health Service was the country's priority.
Security became a top priority in Brazil after the country won the right to host the 2014 football World Cup.
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This path could eventually include citizenship, as long as those who have been waiting patiently to enter the country legally receive priority.
Cyprus's newly elected President, Nicos Anastasiades, has promised to secure a financial bailout, saying his top priority is to restore the country's credibility.
Indeed, that looks set to remain the country's top priority for a long time to come.
The country's next priority is to gain membership of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, composed of the world's industrialized nations, he said.
In recent months, Odinga has made it a priority to reach out to the country's middle class and businessmen, many of whom belong to Kibaki's tribe, the Kikuyu.
In most successful global companies, a priority for executives from the home country is to prepare local managers who may one day accede to senior jobs at headquarters.
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Mr Orban looks like an oddball, and his country is now a lower priority, at a time when lenders have more urgent calls on their time and money.
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.
President Morsi has promised to make tackling the country's failing economy a key priority.
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As other social needs have taken priority in economically turbulent times, however, the country's budget for maintaining and restoring some of its greatest tourist attractions has been drastically reduced.
"Making sure that everybody that has fought for our country has adequate health care is my priority, and that's why the Vietnam Veterans of Wisconsin made me their legislator of the year last year, " Feingold tells a pack of reporters.
"Our first priority should be to stop suicides by farmers in the country, " he pronounced.
We have taken Timor-Leste as the first country to raise education as a number one priority.
Since succeeding Frank Dobson last October, Mr Milburn has sensibly made tackling the country's most damaging diseases a top priority.
The government has made reducing the country's debt levels its key economic priority and has introduced wide-ranging spending cuts to this end.
The most important priority for Italian policymakers is to maintain confidence in the country's huge stock of government debt, the largest in the eurozone in absolute terms and the second-largest as a share of GDP after Greece.
Understanding what makes Canada unique is also a priority for global companies that have a strong presence in this country.
In the U.K., the Cobra committee, which manages responses to high-priority security issues, convened to discuss potential repercussions and the country told its foreign embassies and military bases to review their security.
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Right now, stopping this oil spill and containing its damage is necessarily the top priority not just of my administration but I think of the entire country.
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