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Let's face it, bright lights aren't as bright as they used to be downtown. The high priority is to have an affordable house.

There are times that are trying. They're difficult, ... There are times when he has to be away for special occasions. But he continues to put family first, although he may not be present. He stays in touch. He celebrates when he is here, and we communicate. That's a very big thing. Family is a high priority for him.

The plan is when I go to college I plan on taking four years off. School is definitely my priority no matter what. It's always been important to me. College is a once in a lifetime experience, and then I will come back to this.

When those kinds of weather and road conditions confront us, we have to tell people, we cannot do every single road. All we can really do is sand and peel and scar our priority routes.

We're concerned that the same priority won't be given to long-term development as resources are siphoned to support shorter-term diplomatic or military objectives.

Mr. President, you're busy with things that aren't a priority for Venezuelans.

Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place.

Mitsubishi UFJ's first priority is to digest the merger, ... Speed of execution is the crucial factor.

Mike's first priority is protecting the resource, but he doesn't hesitate to fold in people's needs and comments.

McAfee's top priority is the protection of its customers. Our new VirusScan product automatically blocks spyware before it runs on the customer's system and causes damage. We know the rigorous testing products are put through by PC Magazine, and we are very honored by this award.

McDonald?s priority focus continues to be on our customers. We listen closely to them and welcome constructive feedback. We welcome an objective and fair discussion about issues important to our customers.

She knows this is it. Her goal has been to make it to states in both. She would have made it last year without that fall. This year it's just going to be her top priority to make it in both events to states.

Making sure our senatorial slate was able to run has been our priority all along. I'm glad we could reach a resolution to actually achieve this goal.

Maintaining a successful, consumer-friendly recycling program continues to be a top priority of the wireless industry. So please recognize Earth Day 2006 by taking your used wireless products out of the sock drawer and bringing them to the wireless carrier store near you to be recycled.

Many counties in Maryland are above the average unemployment rate for both Maryland and the United States. We need representation in Congress who will make creating jobs the No. 1 priority so the people of Maryland can get back to work.

Solving the problems facing agriculture, rural areas and farmers remains a top priority of our work,

'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.

Simply fanning out these people to cover the country isn't going to achieve substantive results. The priority must be given to working with the leadership corps at the provincial and city level, and ensure that their activities are coordinated with the elected representatives, other ministries, and local leaders in their respective area.

Securing farmers' and ranchers' viability is always a top priority for the USDA. We'd need to find budget offsets.

Security continues to be a top priority for America's public transportation systems and transit systems will remain vigilant.

Security has always been a priority for us. We have made continuous efforts to make India a secure outsourcing destination through various initiatives.

Security is a company-wide commitment. For SQL Server 2005, security is a priority and includes advanced security features such as integrated authentication, network data encryption, Kerberos support, and Public Key Infrastructure support.

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority . . . We will do everything that we can do to ensure law and order in the affected areas.

Security is not a high enough priority for IT networks here, ... We're concerned about Y2K and GST problems. Security is priority two or three. It needs to be number one.

Security is the highest priority in the data center and in a secure network, but it is only half the equation. To have a truly secure system, security must be addressed end to end, from the data center all the way to the end user. Secure Blue has the potential to be a security 'seal of approval' in industries such as consumer, medical, government and defense, and digital media.

Security of Salem will be our top priority when he comes to Delhi.

Security trumps trade. Security has become the priority when crossing borders.

On a personal level, that's not the kind of situation I want to be in, having to relearn someone or have someone learn me at this point in my career. But this is one of those nothing-you-can-do-about-it situations. ... The priority is and the important part is Dave is OK.

top priority must be given to the people's lives and health.

I would think that humanitarian aid to Americans ought to come right at the top of priority lists, ... I, for one, would support all the aid that makes sense to help these places get back together. And if that means that lesser priorities -- and there are plenty that they spend federal tax dollars on out there (in Washington) -- need to take a back seat for a while, that's probably what they should do.

There are so many highly-qualified Indian students right now that it has become a priority for Tuck to speak with Indian students in their country, and to make a real effort to get the best and the brightest to come to Tuck.

There are some who believe we are going to have an electronic Pearl Harbor, so to speak, before we really make (computer security) the kind of priority that many of us believe it deserves to be,

We are going to push the question of equity again and again until the Legislature makes it as much of a priority as whatever they are planning to do with the tax system.

I am very candid with them. Our first priority is to stay in this community. But if they are interested in talking about options and developing those as alternatives, then I am interested in talking. They know our first priority is to stay in this region but they also know that it doesn't always work out in a community. They don't always make those decisions, and that's why franchises move.

I can't say enough about the job the Tulane administration has done to get us where we are right now. Our No. 1 priority was to get everyone enrolled in school, and while it's not ideal to be spread out the way we are, we are ready to get back to normal and return to every-day life the best we can.

I can't say enough about the tremendous outpouring of support we have received from every single person we have spoken to over the last several days. Our priority was to continue to provide a high quality academic and athletic experience for our athletes. This plan could not have come together without their help.

I can tell you that safety is a huge priority for us. We're working hard on it every day.

I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here.

For Spirit, the priority has been to reach a safe winter haven.

Frankly, instruction is not the primary mission right now. ... Right now we just have to take care of our children, and testing is a long way from my priority right now.

From the first days of our administration, honoring the diversity of the American people has been a priority for President Bush and for me,

Further improving our compliance is the highest priority of the bank.

Getting an official animal wouldn't be real high up on my priority list, but it certainly wouldn't be something I would mind addressing.

From Day 1, my whole priority and my objective is to get these guys into situations where they can get some money out of this game. I'm not going to hold any of 'em back at all.

From a fire department standpoint our number 1 priority is life safety.

I don't think it's in my best interest to say I have a No. 1 priority and here it is. We'll get very aggressive when we feel the prices come within something that makes sense.

Global trade, settlements and reserve assets are heavily reliant on a single currency. The fund should give priority to establishing a surveillance and check-balance mechanism of the major reserve currency countries.

GM's top priority is to restore our North American operations to profitability and positive cash flow as quickly as possible. In 2005, we laid out a comprehensive and integrated strategy to address the structural issues that impede our competitiveness and profitability, and we are focused on rapidly executing all aspects of the turnaround plan.

Giving tax cuts to the very wealthiest Americans should not take priority over the real economic, health care and security concerns facing regular people,

From the start, we made it a priority to play well at home. We emphasized before the season that teams coming in here weren't going to have it easy.

For us, the more meaningful thing is where we are one year from now. We looked for a coach who had a high priority on academics. Al had that.

If I teach the guys to play the game right and they go out and do what we teach them, the winning is going to come. My priority is helping them develop into major league players.

Bryan's focus is on playing good hockey -- that's the top priority right now.

Businesses give a higher priority to profitability and earnings.

China is a country of 1.3 billion people, ... We have to give top priority to the rights to survival and the right to the development of our people. At the same time, we also attach a great deal of importance to the civil rights of our citizens.

China is a major priority for Britain. We've got to engage with China on a broad agenda -- because China's impact on our interests is large and growing.

China is unique. It is growing rapidly, and it has a tremendous amount of potential, which is why we have made it a priority for the company.

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

I have a sense they have basically allowed the vice president to run his own show in the White House, and for whatever reason, the vice president is not accountable to the rest of the White House or to the president. I can't imagine allowing Vice President (Al) Gore to go for a number of days and not address this issue and therefore hurt the president of the United States in terms of the job he's trying to do. The first priority in the White House is not the vice president. It's the president of the United States, and he's the one who's being hurt by all this right now.

Having a roster of the best on-air talent in the business remains a top priority at CBS Sports. James Brown is a viewer favorite in terms of knowledge, credibility and likeability. His return to CBS Sports improves the team in the studio and in the field.

What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

What we want to do is let the public know that the FBI has changed its mission after Sept. 11, that our number one priority is the detection and prevention of another terrorist act.

When information is missing, we're going to put the needs of the disaster victim first. If that means that later we need to come back and ask them for some funds, we'll do that. But really our first priority is helping those folks out.

Wetlands laws, both state and local, protect the lands from flooding, from pollution and they protect the wildlife and the drinking water supply. With the increased priority Andover citizens have for natural areas and open space, I'd be surprised if they vote to repeal (the bylaw).

He was our top priority recruit. We did the full recruiting package to get him.

Human smuggling is an enforcement priority for ICE because it undermines the integrity of our nation's legal immigration system. Additionally, smuggled aliens are often treated as a commodity and are exploited by the criminal networks that brought them here.

We must continue working to make flu education a priority along with vaccine production to effectively prepare ourselves against another epidemic.

We must focus on economic development as our central task, making development our top priority and facilitating and all-round progress in economic, political and cultural aspects and in the building of a harmonious society,

He wants every play to be a home run. There's a sense where, as a coach, you want a quarterback who feels that way ... but at the same time you want a guy who makes sure that his No. 1 priority is to take care of the football.

Heck I didn't think I was going to play football in college. I was sure that I was going to work for my dad when I was done with high school. So getting good grades in high school was never a high priority for me.

I am fully aware of the fact that it may not be possible to keep the tax rate down and still maintain some semblance of deficit control, ... But ... I would strongly recommend that the priority of evaluations start with the expenditure side: what can be constrained, what can be reduced.

If the Congress decides that the priority for this engine is higher than the DoD has proposed, then I'm sure the Congress will be able to soundly and thoughtfully restore the program in a way that will be the least damaging to everything else.

He is an industrialist and his first priority is his business interest, so it matters very little if he had resigned.

He helps prioritize funding requests from the University of Louisville. Otherwise, we would end up having every (university) department trying to end-run the process in an attempt to gain funding, even if it was not a top priority for the university overall.

If someone said 'corporate social responsibility' five years ago, no one would have known what it meant. Today it is a top priority for a large corporation that has a reputation to watch over. But we can't go out and achieve everything that everyone wants on the first day.

He has assured us to tag our priority items into the list of 97 per cent products to be given duty-free access.

He hasn't even played a full season yet, ... We're going to carry three point guards. We talked to a lot of folks, and it was a priority to get a veteran, solid player.

God made loyalty the first priority and so should we. (www.terrybarnett.com)

I feel that the most important thing is for me to continue to work towards being 100 percent healthy. My main priority and responsibility is to the Columbus Blue Jackets and I don't believe participating in the Olympics, which is a short, intense tournament, would be the best thing to do.

He mentioned something, but we weren't interested. When he first asked if we were interested it was before he was going to tear it down. I said 'Why would we want to take $40,000 to tear it down?' We've got other obligations that are priority right now.

Helping customers manage their bills is a priority for us. This includes encouraging customers to take advantage of 'Budget Billing,' whereby they can spread their bills evenly over the year, thus avoiding the jumps that come with higher usage in summer and winter.

We try to give them to players who are in the most high-level contact situations, like the quarterback, receivers, running backs and linebackers. But the No. 1 priority is someone who had a concussion previously.

He doesn't do stupid things with the ball. Mike's system is pretty sound. They'll throw the ball fairly quick. They don't drop back with a lot of looks. He'll have a plan that will be very basic and his priority will be the quarterback. I think he'll handle the 3-4 pretty well. I really do.

We just have to get the president to move it up on his priority list.

My priority is to give the general manager and head coach all the resources necessary to make the Browns successful.

My priority is to increase the endowment fund. I think we'll continue to grow.

My priority is to try and make sure I'm fully fit going into the match,

My priority is to try to make sure that I am fully fit going into the match. My stomach has responded well to rest over the weekend, although I've still got to be careful not to overdo it.

My priority is try to win a championship with the Spurs. Off the court I just let them say whatever they want. I'm used to it a little bit. When I go back to France it's crazy. Everywhere I go it's like a lot of people, paparazzi. So, you just stay with your bodyguard and go into private restaurants and stuff like that.

My priority in life is my whanau, followed by my work as an artist, which has blessed me with the ability to provide opportunities working with others to advance the well-being of Maori.

My priority is providing the maximum academic challenge for each student in the district regardless of their ability.

My priority is to encourage openness and a culture that is willing to acknowledge when things have gone wrong.

My top priority is giving away the most amount of free ice cream to as many people as possible. I've been working at Ben and Jerry's for seven years. It's in my blood.

My top priority is raising student achievement, and I'm going to be as flexible as I possibly can to help all students, ... This is about children's futures and ensuring that New York City's parents have as many options as possible for their children. In exchange for more flexibility, New York City has committed to being accountable for making high-quality academic help available to more students, which will lead to increased achievement.

My top priority is to make sure that decisions we make are based on how they will affect our students. They're the only reason anyone is involved in education.

My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results.

Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority instead of concentrating on generating value for their users. This is worrisome because raising capital alone is misleading as a benchmark for success.

My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.

My main priority is to make the child feel safe and help them feel that this is a safe place to speak about what happened. In doing that, it helps the child offer more details to what may have occurred. I want to be able to get as many details about what happened from that child.

My most important priority is to restore our schools to greatness.