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

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

Foreign Minister Westerwelle, heard through an interpreter, said Germany's priority is helping the Afghan government become capable of defending itself.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Our main priority right now is to work with the local authorities in Wajid to secure the unconditional release of the staff,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

When it comes to choosing songs, Gambarini's first priority is makinga personal connection with the lyrics and melody.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

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

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

"People will say, especially today and rightly, that our urgent priority is to get the right equipment to our forces on the front line,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

"A lot of countries are not buying the fact that nuclear terrorism is a high priority.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

The Iraqi defense minister stressed Iraq's top priority is to "combat terrorism" and that it needs a new partnership with the United States to do that.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

President Barack Obama says reforming the U.S.health care system is his top domestic priority.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Laura Cutler is a member . "We really are calling upon President Obama to make this a priority the way that President Clinton did with Bosnia."

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

Health-care reform has been President Barack Obama's top domestic priority, and the president is making an energetic final push for support, including a recent visit to Ohio.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

It is a necessity. He believes that the first priority of any climate bill enacted by Congress must be to put a cap on global warming gases.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

She says a priority is to finish the job of polio eradication.

VOA: standard.2009.05.18

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

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

But water is the first priority for the Carter Road plaintiffs.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

She says protection of the civilian population is a priority.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

But he says speed is not necessarily the number-one priority.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

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

"After the financial crisis that South Africa is just beginning to emerge from, the big priority for President Zuma and for the South African government is investment and attracting investment into South Africa."

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

President Obama is fighting hard timing is now,". for his top domestic priority, an overhaul of the current health care system that would cost at least $1 trillion, a priority he asserts that can be achieved without adding to the federal budget deficit.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21