In this state, a higher priority process will get a larger chunk of the CPU time than a lower priority process.

Farmers are in favour of giving higher priority to this renewable energy production.

How can this development dimension be given higher priority in the completion of the negotiations?

However, the project was subsequently postponed owing to the higher priority assigned to other issues.

Regional offices had given a higher priority to evaluation within their biennial office management plans.

Additional specialized staff were assigned to the three units, indicating a higher priority for this work.

A cascading priority of tasks in this area, i.e. giving the highest priority to the compilation of indices of the higher level aggregates, should be applied.

Former State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan was even reported to have said recently that denuclearization is now a higher priority for China than stabilization of the Korean Peninsula.

For many governments, both national and local, preventing crime is a far higher priority than encouraging friendship and cooperation.

What is needed, therefore, is a pledge by governments to make global trade liberalization a much higher political priority.

The law should have a complete set of priority rules covering all possible priority conflicts.

OECD countries with higher female labor force participation rates also have higher birth rates.

It will have a higher GDP, larger population, higher military spending, and more technological investment.

And the higher tax economies did not even have smaller budget deficits than the lower tax US rather, higher taxes merely enabled higher spending.

His Government also wished to strengthen poor countries' ability to engage in trade and to give higher priority to the environmental aspect of development assistance.

need to have a higher accountability of funds.

But we have to have these priority changes, we have to have infrastructure to go with this.

If Brazil is to remain on its prosperous path, it must continue to give higher priority to its social and economic programs than to foreign adventures.

I have made the fight against hunger my Government's priority.

These new rules have certainly pushed transaction costs higher.

The stakes are higher than they have ever been.

Other observations are that fish should be given a higher priority due to its high omega 3 content, and that high fat dairy products should be excluded.

Higher food prices have had a major impact in expanding the area devoted to cultivation in many countries, and have led to higher output levels worldwide.

But, she says The issues I am experiencing have greater priority.

If 2005 has taught the world anything, it is that disaster mitigation and emergency preparedness must be an even higher priority and must be integrated into development planning.

With Iran, the stakes are, and always have been, higher.

Women have a slightly higher unemployment rate (7.4 ) than men.

A joint response to poverty reduction should have a priority focus on

All five regional commissions have developed priority programme activities in sustainable development.

If a higher priority OSPF router comes online after the election has taken place, it will not become DR or BDR until (at least) the DR and BDR fail.

City dwellers have a higher death rate than country people do.

But both have fallen, and in continental Europe unemployment is higher.

Students with a secondary school certificate have access to higher education.

They have a relatively higher level of education than other denominations.

Higher speed wireless LANs are inexpensive but have very limited range.

Recently, we have seen some private higher schools and faculties opened.

Enhanced law enforcement efforts have yielded higher volumes of drug seizures.

The Secretary General, for his part, needs the authority and flexibility to carry out his managerial responsibilities and to be able to redeploy resources from lower to higher priority areas.

Simply put, whoever is US president, his or her program will have priority.

Asian countries, like the developed economies, have a tariff escalation system the higher the value added to primary goods, the higher the protection.

Men do not only have priority in treatment, but also have power over decisions regarding their wives' treatment.

For reasons that remained unclear, the Secretary General had not fully used the authority given to him in 2003 to redeploy up to 50 posts from lower to higher priority areas.

Without global warming, production might have been half a percentage point higher.

Even among the untouchables, some castes have higher economic status than others.

Bureaucratic and judicial reform ought to have priority in most countries in Latin America.