Sentence examples for chief priority of from inspiring English sources

"That is why president Obama has made opening markets for US services exporters a chief priority of his middle-class economics agenda".

Benedict has made improved relations between the Vatican and China a chief priority of his papacy, though the effort has moved forward tensely because each side claims ultimate authority over Roman Catholics in China and the right to appoint bishops.

A23 Energy Bill in Jeopardy Republican and Democratic critics threatened a filibuster against new energy legislation that could prevent a chief priority of President Bush from becoming law this year.

The latest offensive in Mosul is a chief priority of the outgoing Obama administration, which desperately needs a foreign policy win in the Middle East before leaving office, and of the Iraqi government, which suffered huge reputational damage during IS's rapid rise.

The chief priority of TB-control programs is to identify and treat active cases of TB before transmission can occur (1, 3).

That fight is likely to be among the chief priorities of the NSA and the FBI next year, backed by the White House.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee recently greeted an incoming crop of freshmen with a prescribed schedule that highlighted fundraising "Call Time" of four hours a day as the chief priority for any new member of Congress.

WASHINGTON -- The repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy over the weekend was a major victory for the White House, but it is now imperiling a chief priority: the ratification of the nuclear-arms-reduction pact with Russia known as the New START Treaty.

On Saudi Arabia, Gilad said that King Abdullah does not hate Israel, but his chief priority is the survival of the regime.

The choice is to be made after he dies by a nine-member Crown Council whose makeup is dominated by supporters of the man who would be kingmaker, Prime Minister Hun Sen. And it is widely believed that Mr. Hun Sen's chief priority -- like that of the badly mistaken French colonial rulers who selected the current king in 1941 -- is to find someone who will not offer a political challenge.

Despite those hurdles, officials of public institutions say that tapping philanthropy has become a chief priority.