"This should make it clear to everyone that protection of wetlands is a serious priority to the department".
Touch technology is a serious priority.
Normally when unsecured creditors do so well compared to secured creditors, there's a serious priority problem to investigate.
Cooking is a serious priority at our house because we're all in big trouble around here.
"But we want them to be able to have a coordinated effort across our government," he said, "so that when we set foreign policy goals and we have conversations from our State Department to people in other countries, they know that this is a serious priority with us".
"In Illinois, mental health services have never been a serious political priority, as evidenced by the recent city and county cuts," said Dr. Ronald Davidson, director of the mental health program at the University of Illinois at Chicago's department of psychiatry.
"When Obama opted out of public campaign financing, he said the system is broken and promised to work to fix it, and that needs to be a very serious priority for him," said Cindi Canary of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform.
Americans should question whether the Justice Department is making America's far-right fanatics a serious priority.
A Credit Suisse First Boston spokesman in Hong Kong also declined to comment, other than to say that "this is a serious matter and is a priority for our senior management".
Each of the 10 priority areas is a serious problem with attainable goals.
