Collocations withpriority
These are words often used in combination withpriority.
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absolute priority
It is the average level of this group that should receive absolute priority; only, he did not define the worst-off group precisely.
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budget priorities
It set up a benchmark survey of more than 1,000 local residents, backed up by citizens' panels, to consult on its budget priorities.
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budgetary priorities
We must therefore ensure that our political priorities can also be translated into budgetary priorities.
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conservation priority
Hence, little of the original forest cover remains, making protection of the remaining forests a high conservation priority.
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educational priority areas
There are no formally designated educational priority areas.
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foremost priority
The foremost priority of colonial policy toward returning askaris was thus to counter perceptions of martial elitism.
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high priority
An inventory of such institutions is a high priority.
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immediate priority
My immediate priority is local authority spending, not structure.
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key priority
However, it is essential that the rail industry should focus initially on our key priority of upgrading the west coast main line.
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legislative priorities
These must be one of its main political and legislative priorities.
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low priority
This was reinforced by the low priority given to public health work at all levels within the organization and by primary care team colleagues.
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main priority
Historically, service users have been the main priority for social services departments.
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national priority
However, most felt that type 2 diabetes was not attractive politically, was not a national priority and did not attract funding or incentive schemes.
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overriding priority
More generally, the only policies to survive were those that were consistent with the overriding priority now attached to sterling.
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pressing priority
Rectifying the under-investment in people's skills must be a more pressing priority than funding pre-election tax cuts.
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priority consideration
Also, the weightings for each individual goal, for priority consideration, can be adaptively adjusted according to complicated task environments.
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priority queue
The parser's basic data structure is a priority queue of candidate analyses.
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priority value
The rewritten atom is necessarily the one with the optimum priority value.
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relative priority
Weighting factors are used to indicate the relative priority of each criterion.
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strategic priority
In addition, we have added two new strategic priority areas: the trade in counterfeit goods and armed robbery.
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top priority
Evidence from polls reveals that while people generally like the idea of exporting freedom, they do not view it as a top priority.
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urgent priority
The acquisition of baseline data for freezing soils is clearly an urgent priority.
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utmost priority
I would give the utmost priority to the installation of integral sanitation and showers.
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