How to Use set priorities in a Sentence
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While the state set guidelines on who could be vaccinated, each provider could set priorities.
— Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2021 -
Learning how to set priorities and not do too much too quickly is essential.
— Judith Graham, CNN, 26 May 2022 -
It has been known for some time that the initial vaccine shipments will come in drips, rather than a flood, requiring health officials to set priorities for who would be first in line.
— Glenn Howatt, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020 -
Based on the thoroughness of the study and report and the criteria used to rank school needs, the information included in this report should be used to set priorities.
— Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2022 -
How to set priorities for the use of ventilators, breathing machines that can sustain life, is one of the most worrisome questions.
— Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2020 -
As such, the government is almost certain to set priorities with race in mind that the NIH will have to implement—and may also need to compel researchers to implement.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2023 -
The data helps set priorities for how money is spent and can become a political football.
— Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2020 -
The data, which help set priorities for how money is spent, can become a political football.
— Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022 -
At that time the system spent more than $1 million in federal, state and local funds to do a systemwide security assessment and set priorities for the future, O’Neal said.
— Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2022 -
Survey results will help set priorities to improve parks and open spaces, recreation, and library services.
— Laura Groch march 5, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023 -
The latter is the wiser path, but only if U.S. policy-makers set priorities and offload some of the security burden to our allies.
— Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022 -
Empower them to set priorities, bring up problems and decide how to allocate resources.
— Frank Orozco, Forbes, 27 May 2021 -
This won’t be easy unless boards have a robust process to set priorities and allocate the resources necessary to integrate ESG into strategy and oversight.
— Jamie Gamble, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2022 -
The test is expected to last three months, allowing the carmaker’s developers to gain insights and set priorities for further development in the future, Mercedes said in a statement.
— Justin Ray, Robb Report, 16 June 2023 -
These and other findings emerge from an online tool developed by the Wisconsin Policy Forum to help the region identify its economic strengths and weaknesses and set priorities for the future.
— Joe Peterangelo, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2022 -
The tools, which unite the expertise of social scientists, gender experts and breeders, have been piloted in Uganda, Nigeria and Zimbabwe to set priorities for the development of new lines of sweet potato, cassava and beans.
— Vivian Polar, Scientific American, 25 July 2022 -
This structural foundation helps set priorities and streamline decision making at all levels of the company, promoting steady and purposeful growth in a business.
— Carl Hung, Forbes, 17 May 2021 -
Amid concerns that Russia could stop supplying energy, the bloc agreed to a nonbinding plan to curb its gas consumption by 15% over eight months and set priorities to determine which industrial sectors would be most affected.
— David Uberti, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022 -
The company has set priorities on Waymo One, an autonomous ride-hailing service, which recently announced plans to expand to Los Angeles.
— Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2023 -
The center will collaborate with organizations and nonprofit groups such as Partners for Better Housing, cities and developers to tackle the region's housing needs and set priorities.
— Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 12 May 2021 -
States, which will get doses based on their adult populations, are largely expected to set priorities based on the advisory panel’s recommendations.
— Anna Edney, Bloomberg.com, 1 Dec. 2020 -
Think of him, Michael, as like a chief operating officer for mission in the agency, with tasking authority and the ability to monitor budgets and really set priorities under my direction and really make sure that the team is rowing together.
— CBS News, 17 Nov. 2021 -
Michael Gentithes, associate dean for the University of Akron school of law, said prosecutorial discretion allows local prosecutors to set priorities in how their office operates.
— cleveland, 5 July 2022 -
Policy makers need accurate information to set priorities for use of limited resources.
— Margaret Spellings, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020 -
At issue in the other are the Biden administration’s immigration enforcement guidelines that had set priorities for deciding which immigrants lacking permanent legal status should be arrested and detained.
— Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023 -
Some 11 million immigrants are living in the United States illegally, and successive administrations have issued enforcement guidelines to set priorities for arrest and deportation, typically focusing on threats to national security or public safety.
— Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023 -
Some 11 million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, and successive administrations have issued enforcement guidelines to set priorities for arrest and deportation, typically focusing on threats to national security or public safety.
— Adam Liptak, New York Times, 23 June 2023
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