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Teachers are concerned that violence is increasing in schools, he said, noting that a motion on the issue was given top priority at the union's annual conference.

Because Murdock's cancer was so advanced, the project was given top priority, and within a couple of months his researchers believed that they had found a viable treatment.

The exchange of family members separated by the war was given top priority at the historic summit meeting in June between the South Korean president, Kim Dae Jung, and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il.

This particular focus on clinical IT systems is also reflected by the findings of a survey among Austrian hospitals [ 33] which showed that introducing clinical systems was given top priority in the next two years.

"The matter may be given top priority," it said.

Improving "public welfare" should instead be given top priority, she said.

In respect of speed, it is to be expected that any decision of an election court will be given top priority and therefore dealt with quickly.

French president François Hollande has insisted that the issue be given top priority on the basis of "prevention, protection and solidarity".

The chancellor signalled that education would be given top priority in a tough spending round next year and contrasted Labour's desire to invest the proceeds of economic growth in public investment with Tory ambitions for tax cuts.

The government paid roughly half of $2bn in due debt, but said it did not have the money to pay $779m worth of general obligation bonds that are given top priority by the island's constitution.

The documents say that people or businesses "in a community or municipality adjacent to a beach shoreline, marsh, bay or tributary of the gulf where oil or oil residues came ashore or appeared in the waters" will be given top priority.