Even with military priority, a project like this in the old Soviet Union would have taken twice as long.

The leaders agreed that the invasion would take place in May, 1944, and receive highest military priority.

Construction stopped in 1942 as military priorities once again took over available labor.

Detailed, accurate topographic maps have long been a military priority.

Civilian and scientific space exploration has been pushed aside for military priorities.

Human rights had been elevated to a military priority and a pre-eminent Western value.

The challengers' trial races, scheduled for the winter of 1992, are also subject to military priorities.

That means the economic dimension will increasingly be viewed as an instrument" of military priorities and foreign policy.

The military priority is to breach the minefield quickly in order to create a safe path for troops or ships.

"But the first priority, military or medical, must be to have friend Murchison returned to us safely and soon."