There are many priorities, but reducing the budget deficit is paramount/is of paramount importance.
By late in the first half United were staring at a seven-goal deficit and almost certain defeat.
The government claimed they were doing a good job of reducing the country's trade deficit and balancing the budget.
The deficit has been rising in recent years because of a drop in earnings from oil, the country's main export.
The cooling paradigm also permitted rapid reversal and repeated demonstration of deficits in the same testing session.
In practice the pace of expenditure and deficit reduction was in advance of that planned and as a consequence tax relaxation was possible.
If the results indicate neither memory nor symbolic play deficits, then further consideration of the executive dysfunction hypothesis is warranted.
