Sentence examples for the chief priority from inspiring English sources

In an emergency, the outcomes – not the motives – should be the chief priority.

That means, again, that the chief priority for our business must be accurate, thorough and up-close analysis.

For John Connolly, Bulger and Flemmi represented a lesser evil: the chief priority for the F.B.I. was to eradicate the Italian Mafia, and, Connolly claimed, his informants were indispensable in that effort.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee recently greeted an incoming crop of freshmen with a prescribed schedule that highlighted fundraising "Call Time" of four hours a day as the chief priority for any new member of Congress.

But, after all the off-field issues which ultimately undermined their bid for promotion last season, Waggott insists that the chief priority for manager Steven Pressley and his staff is simply to maintain their sense of professionalism.

These Sunni Arab autocracies are ensuring that their perspective -- the view that status quo stability, even if that involves repression, is the chief priority in the Middle East, and that Shiite Iran is a disruptive influence that should almost never be trusted -- has the best chance of getting a hearing, according to longtime observers of the lobbying world. .

That fight is likely to be among the chief priorities of the NSA and the FBI next year, backed by the White House.

The chief priorities highlighted in the policy statement — the product of several days of tense negotiations between the coalition parties — include the extension of Greece's "fiscal adjustment period" by at least two years, to 2016, so that fiscal targets can be met without further cuts to salaries and pensions.

That is still the bureau's chief priority, but Mr. Comey is likely to spend the next year dealing with the impact of a much different problem: the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration, according to current and former senior F.B.I. officials.

WASHINGTON -- The repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy over the weekend was a major victory for the White House, but it is now imperiling a chief priority: the ratification of the nuclear-arms-reduction pact with Russia known as the New START Treaty.

The lack of agreement has often made it appear as if Mr. Berlusconi's personal problems are the nation's chief priority.