1.   Rather, the critical determinant of economic policy has been the hidden or not so hidden hand of political priorities.

2.   Programme contracts have also been extremely vulnerable to alterations in political priorities and objectives.

3.   As a result, the plight of the uninsured appears to be a low political priority in the current Congress, much to the frustration of their advocates.

4.   Axworthy said government leaders had made acceptance of the court a top political priority.

5.   But because those who suffer are poor, their access to water is rarely a political priority.

6.   But what is really going on is a classic confrontation between the political interests of business and the political priorities of labor, and the dark suspicions between them.

7.   Cardinal Law concurred, saying that ending abortion was a higher political priority than capital punishment.

8.   Clinton has always fancied himself in the legendary tradition of President John F. Kennedy in spite of their very different backgrounds, personalities and political priorities.

9.   Congress spent Thursday struggling over spending bills that President Clinton has pledged to veto, as Republicans searched for a strategy and the administration assaulted their political priorities.

10.   Even so, Glickman submitted a budget reflecting the political priorities of President Bill Clinton.