Sentence examples for broad priorities from inspiring English sources

He acknowledges, for example, that the White House's broad priorities are the operative ones on the budget and the policy agenda.

Rather than spell out which departments would be the losers, the government would hope to prevent rifts in the cabinet in the run-up to next year's election by simply laying out broad priorities.

Over the last two weeks, he has been completing a strategic plan to present to the foundation's board that highlights five broad priorities: early childhood education, teaching quality/principal leadership, school options, community engagement and out-of-school youth.

Mr. Xi, who formally took over from Hu Jintao as general secretary of the Communist Party on Thursday, was presented to foreign and domestic reporters after a highly scripted party congress intended mainly to laud the work of Mr. Hu and set very broad priorities for Mr. Xi's tenure.

Many of the Chinese leadership's broad priorities — raising incomes for China's 1.3 billion inhabitants, for example — had already been widely telegraphed in speeches and editorials over the past year and had been welcomed by analysts who say China urgently needs to overhaul its outdated economic growth model.

The job involves setting the EU's broad priorities, chairing EU summits and forging agreement among often divided EU member states.

President Obama's 2016 budget includes a renewed push for the broad liberal priority of universal preschool.

"We set four broad priority areas: Women and population stabilization, sustainable environment and climate change, children's health, and strengthening the U.N. system," said Mr. Wirth, a former Democratic Senator from Colorado and Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs.

Rather than rank each initiative in order in a single list, as we had been doing for years, we began assigning them to broad priority buckets — "must do," "should do," and "nice to do". This approach changed the task from judging the relative merits of each initiative against each other one to clustering projects with similar importance together.

The broad priority areas of cooperation identified by China and African countries include: political affairs; international affairs, economic and development issues; peace and security; and cultural and people-to-people exchanges.

The special challenges require tailored responses, which in this framework are grouped under eight broad priority action areas.