What pseudo-policies it has serve a few powerful constituencies with their own narrow priorities: a base filled with racial anxiety; evangelicals bent on repealing same-sex marriage and Roe v. Wade; donors hungry for tax cuts and deregulation; a callous gun lobby that helps perpetuate mass slaughter.
It was critical at this stage for the program to specify the type of knowledge it sought and the type of research it was seeking to support – a focus on programmatic research that sought to understand upstream modifiable determinants of health and equity rather than focusing on specific diseases or single research projects with narrow priorities.
The TfL men insist, though, that the capital's interests are paramount, and that it is better that they will be co-stewarding building in and around transport nodes - the most productive places to be doing it - rather than simply selling up and leaving the job, and the income, to someone else with narrower priorities.
Left to its own devices, the entertainment industry, much like any other corporate enterprise, will continue to create content according to its own narrow, distorted priorities.
She's already lost a few hundred dollars in wages, she said, and if it goes on longer she will have to further narrow her priorities and ambitions.
And we're already battered from those experiences: When we hear President Obama exhort lawmakers in Congress to make sacrifices and put country before politics and serve the people's needs rather than their own narrow political priorities, we should remember that he's doing the latter himself.
If sailing dates and cost take priority, narrow the options that way.
A department with a closed mind stops questioning the assumptions that underpin its actions and a narrow group of priorities increasingly monopolise the time and resources of a government's educational leadership.
In the West, cynicism about African democracy has led governments to narrow their development priorities to poverty reduction and stability; individual liberties like press freedom have dropped off the agenda, making it easier for authoritarian rulers to go after journalists more aggressively.
If you don't engage, you run the risk that they will make decisions based on the narrow self-serving priorities of those special interests that spend a lot of money lobbying...
