noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in order of importance/priority/preference etc
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The country’s main exports were, in order of importance, coffee, sugar, and soya beans.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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Not only are there different kinds of theories but also there are different priorities awarded to theories vis-à-vis methods.
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As a result, women have a different perspective and different priorities in policy making.
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Universalism tends to guarantee all districts a project and reciprocity allows the recognition that different districts will have different project priorities .
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Although the new rules are prudent and reasonable, certainly some could argue for a different set of priorities .
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International comparisons are of relatively little value because they tend to highlight the different priorities and practices of different countries.
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We just had a different view of priorities .
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The rich north and the poor south, it is argued, have different priorities .
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They acknowledged that their subordinates and superiors might have different priorities .
economic
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Is this too much to ask in the current economic climate when priorities may all to easily lie elsewhere?
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Nor had the neighborhood meetings produced any significant expression or constituency for economic development priorities .
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Interest rates have been reduced several times with a significant shift in economic policy giving priority to growth.
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The shift in attention to economic priorities was also in tune with the more conservative policy orientation of the federal government.
high
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Keeping it up and running is probably a higher priority .
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This enterprise has so far fallen far short of its targets, but it remains a high priority .
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It is important that fieldwork staff give high priority to this.
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At its workshop, the council ranks the items, from highest priority to lowest.
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Only football ranks higher in our priorities for this year.
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Items can be high priority but are uninteresting, time consuming or difficult to resolve.
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Both these facts point to the high priority of the struggle for civil liberties.
low
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But these facts are not indicative of a significantly lower priority , nor necessarily of a substantially more modest achievement.
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Why are caring, commitment, and procreation apparently being given such low priority ?
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Music is generally accorded a low priority and is underfunded, and standards of performance are unsatisfactory in many places.
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Age discrimination is a low priority in diversity training programs, she said.
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For a gentleman, a tailor's bill had always been very low in his priorities for settlement.
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They had low priority because they were no longer in a hurry.
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Some things need to be dealt with first and others are of lower priority and can wait.
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Because black mom-and-pop stores ordered and sold relatively little inventory at a given time, they were low priority .
main
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The main priorities are: A comprehensive transportation study with a view to reducing the level of dependence on private cars.
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One of the main priorities therefore was to make the whole building accessible to disabled people.
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He says that the main priority was to ensure that the travellers couldn't group up to stage a huge festival.
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His main priority now was to get them to safety.
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Overnight, sorting out the repossession scandal had become the Government's main priority .
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Your main priority is to find any people as we are placing the main hose in team 2's hands.
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Pearce considers that one of the main priorities of any top executive should be to develop the managers under him.
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The main priority on the Soviet foreign-policy agenda at this time was to secure its objectives with regard to Berlin.
major
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Specific Projects Our major priority should be the creation of a major family database of world-wide importance.
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Getting people off welfare and into paying jobs is a major national priority .
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This job can not be done without personal contact, so getting to Berlin is a major priority .
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Kemp has also opposed a constitutional amendment to balance the budget, a major priority for Dole.
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Provided that post-storage image processing is not a major priority , analogue technology is effective.
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Identifying the environment as a major priority is one thing, doing something about it another.
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The intention is that it should be the major Group priority for two years from September 1991.
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In the early 1950s Highlander work shifted to make educational programs on the civil rights issue its major priority .
national
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The authority will assess the community's health needs and reflect national and regional priorities .
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Getting people off welfare and into paying jobs is a major national priority .
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Such ties and feelings, however, could not indefinitely resist some erosion as material national interests and priorities began to change.
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But the state intervenes to ensure that national priorities are protected.
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These differences are labelled ` cleavages', since they can divide societies over national policy priorities .
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From 1945 until 1963, national priorities actually operated against the modernization of the North's industrial structure.
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The Society in consultation with the Regional Representatives has set the national priorities as being: - 1.
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He said that the national priority was now privatization.
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Rather, the critical determinant of economic policy has been the hidden or not so hidden hand of political priorities .
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In contrast, California has always been a top political priority for Clinton.
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Nevertheless, political priorities will continue to dominate.
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Debt and economic difficulties are less significant than political priorities in determining access to education.
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How those causes are identified will affect political priorities and is also partly influenced by them.
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It is secondary to the political priorities of preserving specific presidents in power and the patronage system associated with them.
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Changes in political priorities may simply result in the need for informed guesswork if suitable data are not available.
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Programme contracts have also been extremely vulnerable to alterations in political priorities and objectives.
top
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Mr Hattersley, in Darlington to meet Labour's northern candidates, said he would make extra police manpower a top priority .
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A top Democratic priority is likely to be getting women to the polls.
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In my view, the provision of adequate fire prevention and fire fighting measures should be Venice's top priority .
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This was and remains a top priority for all businesses.
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Entering the Kingdom is by invitation only, and that invitation must be given top priority .
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A top priority: enhanced security.
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Our top priority is therefore the introduction of fair votes for all elections at all levels of government.
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Around the globe, the richer nations have made easing the overcrowding of third world cities a top aid priority .
■ NOUN
area
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Other priority areas included research, environment, justice and culture.
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Over 227 measurable objectives grouped under 15 priority areas were identified.
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Verhofstadt had no fewer than 16 priority areas .
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Particular emphasis will be given to schemes within the priority areas of South Bank, Grangetown and Redcar.
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Fourthly, the need for collections to reflect the full range of materials available within the priority areas chosen.
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Most important of all, educational priority areas should be formally designated, and teachers paid more for working in them.
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The information will also be compared with national and regional data to identify priority areas in the area.
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Reconsideration should ensure that the needs of people living in urban priority areas are properly recognised.
list
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Skye was next on the priority list .
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By five he had knocked off most of the items on his priority list .
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He said the priority list was discriminatory.
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Fifteen years ago, students came to me with this priority list of questions: Where can I get in?
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Rough estimates of cost are used to create a priority list of the most promising cases for further study.
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From the late seventies through today, the priority list of undergraduates questions has changed considerably: Where can I get in?
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The present scheme must operate a priority list .
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In fact, the feuding agencies were about to lock horns and starve over the first two dams on their priority lists .
■ VERB
consider
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Accordingly, the Agricultural Training Board, like similar organisations, needed to consider the priorities it gave in these areas.
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It is a process that forces line management to consider their operational priorities and also allows for decentralized decision-making.
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In considering priorities so far we have considered the priorities involved in choice.
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We must consider priorities for public expenditure on education, as elsewhere.
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You must therefore consider your priorities , plus the amount of available space.
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However, in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority .
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In contrast, commercial broadcasters have obligations to shareholders: they must consider the priorities and attractions of profit-making programmes and schedules.
decide
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And I decide priorities in my Laboratory.
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Not long after expressing interest, general manager Dan Duquette decided he has other priorities .
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But who makes the choices, establishes the criteria and decides the priorities ?
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I expected that the President would read it, decide on his priorities , and call for more detailed suggestions.
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If she also works they must decide whose job has priority .
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Its job will be to consider the responses coming in and to decide the priorities .
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How will Railtrack decide on access priority when track slots are scarce?
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Draw up a School Development Plan and renew it every year. Decide on priorities .
determine
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It can help to determine priorities to assist operational decision-making.
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The careful use of a needs assessment to determine program priorities , both short term and long range. 2.
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This led to further changes in management structures and processes but also represented a significant challenge to professional power to determine priorities .
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Again, caution must be exercised, and one may have to determine priorities .
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Assist in delegated clinical research. Determine nursing priorities on a daily basis and plan patient care according to staff availability and capabilities.
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The discipline of measuring benefits and costs locates waste, helps determine priorities , and can result in increased benefits.
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This project aims to investigate the methods used by local authorities to determine priorities for funding amongst bus services.
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Also at an outlet, you may draw -- at random -- for wristbands or numbered cards to determine priority ticket sales.
establish
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He stupidly took off on the outside of a wave when some one else had already established priority on the inside.
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Thus the recognition of values helps health practitioners establish priorities and hierarchies of importance among needs and goals.
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It gives us the opportunity to shape the direction of the Community and to establish its priorities .
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Managers must be able to establish priorities and assign duties.
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Some authorities have developed explicit policies which establish priorities amongst the various types of service referred to above.
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Concentrate on the things you can do well within a reasonable working day, establishing the priorities as you go along.
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To provide data to establish priorities for the allocation of funds and personnel resources. 5.
give
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The less well-to-do may encourage early marriage and give priority to settling down to stable family life.
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Sen claims it is essentially a matter of which variable is given priority that separates the major ethical systems and ideologies.
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It is important that fieldwork staff give high priority to this.
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More experience may lead to these drugs being given earlier priority .
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Let's give priority to the living.
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The employers pledged to provide summer and after-school jobs for young people and to give priority hiring to public school graduates.
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Entering the Kingdom is by invitation only, and that invitation must be given top priority .
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And Gelbspan gives a good account of alternative-energy programs, which he urges be given greater funding priority .
identify
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The department would be required to identify priority zones where lions have posed particular problems and institute special control measures.
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The most important part of the day was identifying priorities for action and agreeing how they would be handled.
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Under-fives services were not identified as a priority .
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The information will also be compared with national and regional data to identify priority areas in the area.
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Therefore, in advance of any negotiation, management should identify priorities , areas of flexibility and tactics.
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How those causes are identified will affect political priorities and is also partly influenced by them.
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In the last part of this contribution, Brown identifies a number of priorities for future research.
place
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A retail organisation, for instance, may place priority on action, customer service and teamwork.
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If you place a high priority on democracy, many people label you less than patriotic.
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Quite simply, he placed a higher priority on removing the existing regime than on forestalling a military intervention.
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He was even, ironically in light of the Simpson verdicts bearing down on him, placing his highest priority on education.
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Caring jobs attract individuals who place high priority on relationships.
receive
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The part of the programme which had received highest priority was the introductory course in information retrieval for the engineering undergraduates.
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Students who complete a post-secondary degree in a health-care field receive priority hiring when they graduate.
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Swiftair items receive priority treatment and separate sorting in this country and in over 140 countries worldwide.
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Research in the laboratory, in physical therapy, and in new surgical procedures received high priority .
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The council's Library Committee now plans to make a further recommendation to the Board as to which town should receive priority .
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These letters only receive priority treatment at the delivery office if that day's deliveries have already left the office.
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The employer receives first and foremost priority services from its lawyers - there are no distractions from other clients.
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Others were anxious that patients with long waits had received priority over those with clinically more urgent conditions.
reflect
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The authority will assess the community's health needs and reflect national and regional priorities .
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Alternatively, they could themselves reflect Soviet policy priorities .
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A flat organizational structure, appropriate to a professional group, reflects the high priority given to upward power.
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Characteristics chosen for labelling may reflect domestic environmental priorities , and criteria used in different national schemes may vary widely.
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School-to-work must reflect business priorities and will fail miserably without business participation.
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This rate has dipped significantly in the last two years reflecting the shift in priorities of the government's cultural policy.
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Inevitably the inequality in numbers was reflected in the priority given to issues.
remain
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Therefore, reorganisation and cost-cutting wherever possible will remain a priority .
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This enterprise has so far fallen far short of its targets, but it remains a high priority .
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The development of the theoretical framework remains therefore of high priority .
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This was and remains a top priority for all businesses.
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A return to the dividend lists, however, remains a priority for this year.
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It would still appear, therefore, that despite some initiatives jobs for older people remain a low priority .
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Work continues on the remaining strategic priorities .
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For them, social housing remains a priority .
set
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Assessing community care needs in their localities, setting objectives and priorities and formulating community care plans. 2.
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Expenditures should be subject to strict independent review, and scientific organizations or objective federal offices should set priorities for research spending.
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These groups, which would be multidisciplinary, would aim to set priorities for research.
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Do you suppose the elections in November have anything to do with how they set their priorities ? &038;.
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We have also attempted to set down priorities for the Council.
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The council set its spending priorities just before midnight after listening to more than three hours of testimony.
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The stage was set for a nice priority fight.
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The year begins with a day-long workshop, at which the council sets priorities for the coming year.
take
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My communication to him must take priority .
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One might concentrate on careful social legislation, taking as its priorities the security, well-being and leisure of the whole population.
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For example, if the title deeds are left with the company, an equitable mortgagee by deposit will take priority .
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Commonality quickly took priority over distinctiveness.
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The need to feed the addiction takes priority over all other activities, leading to personal neglect, anti-social behaviour and crime.
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The evidence was strong that the council subcommittee was persuaded before the public hearing that the Housing Commission should take priority .
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In most countries the fishing industry has a powerful political lobby, with jobs and profits taking priority .
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With the push to integrate, will the needs of the regular education child take priority over the special education child?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
high priority
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Free individual choice in matters affecting this right should, in my opinion, be accorded very high priority.
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He was even, ironically in light of the Simpson verdicts bearing down on him, placing his highest priority on education.
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I assure the hon. Gentleman that my hon. Friend and I give the matter a high priority.
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If saving lives is your aim, providing clean water should be a higher priority still.
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In general, only high priority cases are able to gain a place.
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Launching a new round of trade liberalisation talks after the failure of the Seattle summit remains a high priority for both sides.
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The development of the theoretical framework remains therefore of high priority.
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The pleasure principle should motivate the programmes of study, and always be given high priority.
top priority
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And he showed he means to make goals a top priority with the £400,000 move for Rangers livewire front man Spencer.
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At that time both parties were clearly giving top priority to defence.
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Disability aside, one of her top priorities is to be a role model and mentor to aspiring radiologists.
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Mr Hattersley, in Darlington to meet Labour's northern candidates, said he would make extra police manpower a top priority.
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President Clinton has deemed education the top priority of his second term, and his budget reflects it.
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Safety will be a top priority.
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This was and remains a top priority for all businesses.
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To keep campaign pledges to make education his top priority, Clinton wants two new middle-class tax breaks for college tuition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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First, let's decide what our priorities are.
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My main priority is get through all my exams.
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Our priority right now is to get food and medical supplies to the region.
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Safety has always been our number one priority .
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The President promised to give priority to reducing unemployment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aid for environmental planning in developing countries has been designated a top priority .
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But black and ethnic minority subjects still have low priority in psychology.
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But equal priority is my people.
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For years her highest priority had been a career.
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Not long after expressing interest, general manager Dan Duquette decided he has other priorities.
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The priority after the divestiture, though, will be reducing debt, he said.
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The focus is priorities for improvements.
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There has been a priority of worship.