21.   After receiving the report, the State Department said it would place higher priority on the hiring of Americans, particularly in senior positions.

22.   After the experience of the presidential election in Florida, many of these legislators are placing a higher priority on electoral reforms than on campaign finance legislation this year.

23.   Brown said Monday he was putting a higher priority on experience for this first game.

24.   Bush is firmly establishing his reputation as one who places a higher priority on business cost considerations than on consumer protection.

25.   But creating jobs is an even higher priority and the government wants to substantially enhance mining and logging opportunities while also protecting tourism, hunting and fishing interests.

26.   But a week later, McCaleb told the Post-Intelligencer that he has higher priorities than adding staff working on recognition.

27.   But Democrats said there was no higher priority in a downturn than helping unemployed people put food on the table or maintain their health insurance.

28.   But Becraft said those reports pile up unread in overburdened INS offices while agents deal with higher priorities.

29.   But he said, they place higher priorities on other issues such as education and the decline of moral values.

30.   But if rape is not made a higher priority, human rights groups argue, prosecutors may find themselves without witnesses.