Comparing these with the clearstory of Trinity nave (p. 71) questions of priority arise.

The Star Ranger was given priority docking.

"I heard all this from my place behind the mizzen mast, and you may guess how glad I was not to have been selected; but a groan, a chattering of the teeth, a trembling and shaking of bones close by my side, caused me to look around, and there was poor Buck, with his priority honors thick upon him.

At the top of our priority list for the well-being of the earth stands the injunction: conserve and build topsoil.

Will went over to the master communicator in the tower and sent a top priority message to Space Command's headquarters on Mars, describing the situation.

Priority N. priority, antecedence, anteriority, precedence, pre-existence; precession &c 280; precursor &c 64; the past &c 122; premises.

They have also enabled the oligarchs to establish a priority scale of income distribution under which those who held property and its derivatives could have first choice among available consumer goods and services.