(a.) The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
(a.) Precedence; superior rank.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(2) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(3) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(4) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
(5) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
(6) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(7) The retention of critical care nurses is an important priority of nursing administration.
(8) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(9) In general, thoracic injuries take priority over abdominal, cerebral and orthopaedic injuries, in that order.
(10) The Saudi-led war in Yemen launched in March – against Houthi rebels who the Saudis insist are backed by Iran – has diverted resources and underlined the priority being given to the Gulf’s unstable and impoverished backyard.
(11) Theresa May to visit India in signal of trading priorities post-Brexit Read more Cable said India had been keen to expand “ Mode 4 ” market access: the ability to bring in staff – Indian IT experts, for example – as part of trading in services.
(12) He said the ongoing Australian-led search had already scoured 43% of the high-priority area.
(13) Those in power have shown their priorities are their own position, status and importance over the improvement or even the establishment of the nation,” Soliman said.
(14) As a matter of priority the UK is working with the Afghan Government to identify a safe transfer route."
(15) The news comes one week after Marshall announced, in an email to staff, that there would be a shift in research priorities, away from understanding the nature of climate change, and towards adaptation and mitigation.
(16) It’s another squalid reminder of Conservative priorities, and how low they are prepared to sink in pursuit of them.
(17) These activity priorities are considered a working tool for formulation of objectives and development of plans, and do not include a consideration of methodologies for implementation.
(18) In skin grafting the hand restoration of function must always be the priority, but an acceptable appearance is also important and care should be taken in selecting a skin graft that matches the recipient site.
(19) The country's priority now, he added, was to "comfort and care for people who have lived through a nightmare which very few of us can imagine".
(20) Resuscitation and diagnostic evaluation are life-saving priorities of treatment in the emergency room.
Urgent
Definition:
(a.) Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.
Example Sentences:
(1) This case demonstrates that the manifestations may be delayed and that urgent surgical intervention may be lifesaving despite the precarious status of these patients.
(2) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(3) We are urgently investigating this incident with our supplier and ask customers to return this product to their local store."
(4) The patient presented urgently for Caesarean section, with fluid overload and worsening thrombocytopaenia.
(5) Their confidence in the practitioner's clinical judgment was greater in their care of nonurgent and urgent patients.
(6) The pope has written in his encyclical of the urgent need to reduce climate change gases.
(7) Zoellick was also clear that action was now urgently needed.
(8) The following year yet another Bank analyst wrote a report on BCCI entitled "Why action is now urgently required".
(9) And we owe [Hickox] better than that and all the people who do this work better than that.” The White House indicated that it was urgently reviewing the federal guidelines for returning healthcare workers, “recognising that these medical professionals’ selfless efforts to fight this disease on the front lines will be critical to bringing this epidemic under control, the only way to eliminate the risk of additional cases here at home”.
(10) The urgent endoscopy of the superior gastrointestinal haemorrhage carefully and quickly helps in clarifying the following questions: Is the patient going on bleeding?
(11) Close cooperation of ophthalmological departments with vitreoretinal centres and early performance of urgent surgery are the basic prerequisites of better functional results of PPV in EHE.
(12) "Ministers must urgently get behind a different approach to food and farming that delivers real sustainable solutions rather than peddling the snake oil that is GM ."
(13) Urinary frequency was normalized in 6 out of 16 (37.5%), urgency ceased in 6 out of 17 (35.7%) and urgent incontinence disappeared in 9 out of 14 (50%) patients.
(14) This issue should attract attention more urgently now in light of the deaths in Savar.
(15) Guide-wire fragments retained in the coronary artery system after PTCA are removed either immediately by means of catheter techniques or by urgent operation.
(16) Ownership is not the problem, affordable homes for people are what are urgently needed and will, it seems, need a new government.
(17) It is understood that counterterrorism police at Heathrow are urgently seeking a meeting with senior UKBA management over the missed alerts.
(18) Alongside investment in health campaigns to help people reduce their risk of cancer, the government urgently needs to take action to stop children starting smoking by introducing standardised packaging for cigarettes without delay”, he added.
(19) Four of the six related deaths and half the urgent operations occurred among 18 patients iwth colonic dilatation.
(20) The other two patients underwent urgent adrenalectomy and had postoperative improvement in their multiple organ system failure.