11.   Finding a breakthrough in this situation is an urgent priority for the prime minister.

12.   In the villages and slums, ordinary Haitians have more urgent priorities than slaughtering the wealthy, such as finding food to stay alive.

13.   Its most urgent priority is to gather information about possible future attacks.

14.   Others argue privately that without strong Western leadership, such causes will be drowned out by more urgent geopolitical priorities.

15.   Robert B. Zoellick, the U.S. trade representative, said this week that liberalizing trade was an urgent priority to avoid giving nations an excuse to revert to protectionism.

16.   That is why the urgent priority of the mayor should be to generate discussion on transforming the whole area.

17.   The Bush administration has emphasized since it began attacking targets in Afghanistan last month that it considers the aid mission there an urgent priority.

18.   The most urgent priority for the new team should be to rally city legislators in Albany to get reform of the school structure.

19.   With the city and state budgets enacted, they should turn to the sorry state of New York schools as an urgent priority.

20.   A more urgent priority is getting healthy enough to play again.