That's why creating jobs has to be our number one priority in two thousand and ten."

VOA: special.2010.01.30

"Safety and security of our volunteers is absolutely our top priority and we are continually looking at this topic and I have to say that in the last few years we have done an amazing amount of work to try to improve both our systems to support volunteers, to ensure confidentiality and to strengthen their preparedness and training."

VOA: special.2011.03.28

"That's the wonderful thing about Earth Day is that it really provides a platform, an opportunity for grassroots organizations and community organizations to really focus on what's happening in their neighborhoods and their homes in their communities, in their businesses and to focus on the priority problems and to engage people maybe for the first time in taking environmental action."

VOA: special.2010.04.21

President Obama is eagerly awaited strategy makes the top priority defeating al-Qaida and related terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

The Government has made it a priority to move residents before the rainy season begins in a few weeks.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

This is a very high priority for this administration and we're going to pursue this vigorously in the coming months."

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Turning the tide in the Afghanistan war will likely be another major priority for President Obama in 2010.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

UNIFIL political advisor Milos Struger says, "Our immediate priority of UNIFIL is to restore calm in the area.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

UNIFIL spokesman Andrea Tenenti, "The important aspect of what we have been doing today, our immediate priority, was to restore calm in the area;

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

It says expectant mothers should be given top priority in receiving antiviral drugs like Tamiflu.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

"No options should be removed from the table in spite of the fact that at this stage, a priority should be given still to diplomacy,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

Paul Hanle,says he hopes to see bioscience education become a priority in American schools.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Immigration reform failed in Congress in 2006 and 2007 and President Obama promised to make the issue a top priority during his first year in office.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

She says climate change is a major priority in the Obama Administration.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

"When you have people who are trafficking firearms or engaged in blowing up buildings, or engaged in drug trafficking, sometimes cigarette trafficking is not considered a high priority.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

And,and the condoms, they are the first priority in our country.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

In Hajji's words, "It was financial concerns that were their priority."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

So,while the campaign is global, the Red Cross says a priority is to reach people in the most remote corners of the world within the next few weeks with its life-saving messages.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

World Vision's Amelia Merrick, says getting schools back up and running quickly is a top priority, particularly in areas like Pariaman where entire villages were buried by landslides caused by the quake.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

"At this stage my priority is to have teams of people out there cleaning this mess up to protect wildlife in what may well be the worst environmental disaster that Queensland or the south-east of our State has faced."

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

We need help from the developing countries as they put priority on this in their budgets and the quality of their delivery systems to get out and reach every child, And he calls for more public/private partnerships that include the major pharmaceutical companies.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29