They've habitually opposed the communications rights of real people, prioritizing instead the monopoly-minded views of companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon.
And with the Fed prioritizing growth instead of fear of inflation, that's not likely to change.
"This is an important step," says conservation biologist David Wilcove of Environmental Defense, who says it will "hopefully mark the start of a dialogue" to prioritize species instead of mindlessly battling in court.
A host of states are currently considering decriminalizing marijuana, prioritizing treatment instead of imprisonment for drug use, or taking the relatively modest step of making marijuana legal for medical use.
It can also happen that a team member chooses to prioritize patients instead of acting in accordance with organizational directives.
The S.E.C. instead prioritized its plans to remove credit ratings from dozens of regulations, some of them decades old.
Local activist Marni Wroth said in the wake of Andy's death regulating toy guns has never been a priority for activists, who have instead prioritized advocating for greater oversight of police use of force.
What if we stopped putting ourselves first, but instead prioritized the global community?
This meant more standardization of expectations (if not curriculum), and it prioritized educational outcomes instead of sanctifying specific means for pursuing them.
As if the U.S. should have given up on preventing Iran from having a path to the doomsday weapon and instead prioritized clamping down on Hezbollah's alleged drug smuggling through tactical enforcement actions.
