1.   But these facts are not indicative of a significantly lower priority, nor necessarily of a substantially more modest achievement.

2.   Some things need to be dealt with first and others are of lower priority and can wait.

3.   The despatch of American reinforcements to the Middle East thus became an even lower priority.

4.   Thus, the recession made carpet purchasing a lower priority matter for those who already had carpets and the attitude was to make them last longer.

5.   Although the NMD program is important, it should have a lower priority than those programs that are key to maintaining military readiness.

6.   Any involving limited wrongdoing may also become a much lower priority.

7.   At the same time, the company has now turned its focus to growth, a lower priority when it was more concerned with simply digging itself out.

8.   A civilian, even a child, is a lower priority.

9.   But he has made a lower priority of services directed toward low-income people.

10.   By assigning these issues lower priorities, the firms make the other bonds in the issue safer for investors.