Confronting the economic downturn and preventing it from boosting hemispheric poverty rates will be urgent priorities at the Summit of the Americas, according U.S.Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs,Tom Shannon.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

It was highly elevated above all other priorities and absort the lion share of effort and attention of the White House.

是压在所有其他首要任务之上的,在白宫人力物力方面,都占了很大的比重。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

He made it relatively easy for me to set the priorities, as to where we devote the time, who gets in and who doesn't.

但总统让我相对容易地,设定首要任务，让我知道把事件分配到哪，谁要会见，谁不要。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"You know you can send all the envoys in the world, you can listen, you can encourage, but I understand all the priorities that he has tugging at him, but I think that that is what it is going to take."

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

If you have that sort of high-level, this is where we're going, this is the vision, this is the next 30 days and three months and six months and a year maybe, it makes it very, very easy to set priorities and for all of the edges of the company to set their own priorities to do the right thing.

如果你做到这么高水准的内部交流，就与我们的前进方向不谋而合，这就是未来，这是接下来30天,3个月，半年或是1年的前景，这让公司各部门的人,做正确的事,设立工作重点,变得非常容易。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

It wasn't my concept of what I thought the priorities would be.

不是我认为,总统的首要任务是什么。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选