"A lot of those folks, their principal priority is to look for a vehicle they can be proud of and talk to their friends about," he added.
Signing Barber and cornerback Jason Sehorn, another free agent who agreed to a new contract last week, had been the principal priority of the Giants' front office during the off-season.
That was when the Supreme Court, in deciding Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States — a case involving the regulation of the sale of sick chickens — struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act, a principal domestic priority of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, on the ground that it violated the Commerce Clause.
"With all the media focus on ISIL, what's sometimes lost is that we still view al Qaeda and the various al Qaeda affiliates and nodes as being a principal counterterrorism priority," he said in an interview published in September's issue of the Sentinel, a publication of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.
The mayor, meanwhile, has downplayed the cameras' role as a moneymaker for the city and maintained that his principal priority is "the safety of our children," NBC Chicago reported.
Safety will be and must be our first and principal priority".
Noted Wilkerson: "What I have learned is that as the administration authorized harsh interrogation in April and May of 2002 -- well before the Justice Department had rendered any legal opinion -- its principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at pre-empting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al-Qaeda".
One of the president's principal priorities is to work with Congress to put in place a new framework for constraints on risk-taking, for better consumer investor protection, better protection against the kind of fraud we saw in these markets, and a much more powerful, cleaner oversight structure with better enforcement, frankly.
China and Russia are now America's "principal priorities".
