No, she replied with a look that unmistakably said: "You think this is the biggest thing we Israelis have to worry about these days?" Thank goodness, New York politicians grasp priorities better than she does.
They give much less priority to "better pay for staff", "better buildings" and "giving academics more time for research".
Is it really supposed to be directly an account of "good", or, if we respect the priority of "better" to "good", should we really try to understand it as, at bottom, an account of "better than"?
Its main priority was better management and conservation of forests, and a convention on saving them.
You told me right after you took office, in 2013, that after the nuclear deal your top priority was better relations with the Gulf states.
This includes deep cuts in transit and port security and in the long-promised, still unrealized priority of better emergency communications.
Mr. Ramos-Horta said at his swearing-in that he would give priority to better relations with Indonesia, as well as Australia and other nations in the region and around the Pacific rim.
It would be seen as an insulting rejoinder to their recent election of a moderate Islamic government -- one that has made a priority of better relations with Europe and pledged far-reaching political reform, in part to bolster the case for Turkey's own membership in the European Union.
His riff on rewarding the responsible who work hard and contribute with higher housing priority and better benefit entitlements is the start of a new policy to restore the contributory principle, as Beveridge intended, to shore up wobbling support for the welfare state.
Improving water efficiency in irrigated agriculture is a priority for better environmental and economic performance.
