priority

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The professional-services firm, which specializes in tax and accounting services, has a complex corporate structure that gives priority to pre-IPO insiders over public shareholders.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Protecting public health and the well-being of impacted communities remains the state’s foremost priority.”

From Los Angeles Times

But it added that it had been "a long-standing priority under successive governments" to work for his release.

From Barron's

The Foreign Office said it had been "a long-standing priority under successive governments" to work for Abdel Fattah's release and see him reunited with his family in the UK, but condemned his posts as "abhorrent".

From BBC

"Disaster is not picky. It affects from north to south. So we would like to expand this further," Macatulad said, adding that poor communities "most vulnerable to the effects of climate change" were the priority.

From Barron's