Vocabulary: priorities, pledged, leverage, coalition, reconstruction, expeditious, competent, prevailing, wage, segregation, constituency, attribute, strategies, empowerment, endemic Extension Activities: 1.
Now all the presidential candidates vow to make the restoration of security their top priority — pledging to get the police back to work, restore their morale and teach them about human rights.
A report released in December by Russia's federal auditing agency found that of about $55 million in priority aid pledged by Russia, only about $15 million had been delivered and only $1.4 million spent.
Adopting New Policies For the third time since 2005 BP has again announced safety as its top priority and pledged a shift in its culture to ensure that that promise will be implemented.
The grandson of Toyota's founder admitted his company had grown too fast, blurring its priorities, and pledged to shake up management structures to sharpen its focus on safety.
Echoing some of Hamm's priorities, Trump pledged to lift moratoriums on energy production in federal areas, to revoke policies that limit new drilling technologies and to "cancel" the Paris agreement.
After being named superintendent, King said she would undertake a "listening tour" of campuses to get feedback about setting the right priorities and pledged to bring people together on behalf of improving schools.
Mr. Bloomberg made homelessness a top priority of his administration and pledged to reduce the shelter population by two-thirds.
PwC said: "Our priority is to keep all pledged items safe and available for redemption as normal".
Technology is another priority, and Mr. Kerrey has pledged to create a better computer network system for the university.
