7 sentences with 'priorities'
Example sentences and phrases with the word priorities and other words derived from it.
• « Moreover, Tiberius oversaw a momentous shift in the priorities of the Roman state: the Roman Empire no longer embarked on a sustained campaign of expansion as it had done since the early decades of the Republic half a millennium earlier. »
• « This does not seem to have been a conscious political choice on Tiberius' part, but rather a shift in priorities: the Senate was now composed of landed elites who did not base their identity on war, and Tiberius himself saw little benefit in fighting Persia or invading Germania (he also feared that successful generals might threaten his power, at one point ordering the war in Germania to be suspended). »
• « The Mongols established a kingdom known as Il-Khanate in Persia in 1256, but it was not until 1295 that the Mongol ruler Ghazan, the first to convert to Islam, shifted Mongol priorities from plundering expeditions to more conventional government and taxation. »
• « Entire cultures were destroyed, empires fell, and the survivors found themselves at the mercy of conquistadors whose highest priorities were the extraction of mineral wealth and the exploitation of labour. »
• « The principle of the welfare state is that it is impossible to be happy and productive without certain basic needs being met. Among the most important of these needs are adequate health care and education, both of which were priorities that post-war Western European governments embraced. »
• « States are no longer in a position not to control - which would be incompatible with cultural pluralism - but to set priorities for certain areas of culture. The greatest cultural influence on the citizen does not depend on the educational system but on what some call the "culture industry", an industry that has transnational characteristics, with the problems already mentioned regarding the economic sovereignty of states. »