Sentence examples for old priority from inspiring English sources

The modern role of funding green-energy projects has grown in prominence, but that old priority still sucks up the biggest share of the department's people and money.The second difficulty is the sheer size of the stimulus: the extra $39 billion dwarfs the department's pre-stimulus total annual budget of just $26 billion.

(My horny 25-year old priority, evidently, was to keep having a lot of sex with men).

There is a connection, to be sure, between DeMint's old priorities and his new ones.

Perched on a rocky outcropping, the four-year-old Phi Beach stands the old priorities on their heads.

Every manager has seen change initiatives that were introduced with great fanfare slide into obscurity as old priorities reasserted themselves.

Elisheva Carlebach shows that the calendar is a complex and living system, constantly modified as new preoccupations emerge and old priorities fade.

And in some cases, the old priorities — like the fight for the Pech Valley — are later deemed unnecessary, even as the latest effort carves out ground.

But the old priorities ain't what they used to be... Since September 11, biological clocks all over town seem to be speeding up.

The new philosophical dispensation in Coleridge, like the new social dispensation in Lessing, reversed the old priorities; and where there were once princes there were now burghers, and where there were once the ordinances of God and the state there were now the dictates of the heart.

It may be something that really shifts your old priorities and values.

Often, as we get older, priorities shift and we start to let go of those things that are important to us -- we take care of others in our lives and we commit to our jobs and careers, which often aren't related to our hobbies or interests, but are simply a means to an end.