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  • It came as CoffmanÂwas discussing Obama's decision to de-prioritize deportations of illegal immigrants who pose no security threat.

    Jason Salzman: Coffman: Obama Rushing Illegal Immigrants Onto Voter Rolls Jason Salzman 2011

  • It came as Coffmanwas discussing Obama's decision to de-prioritize deportations of illegal immigrants who pose no security threat.

    Jason Salzman: Coffman: Obama Rushing Illegal Immigrants Onto Voter Rolls Jason Salzman 2011

  • A woman poet can either choose to identify with Orpheus and de-prioritize her gender, or she can give voice to Eurydice.

    Points of the compass - 2 David McDuff 2010

  • A woman poet can either choose to identify with Orpheus and de-prioritize her gender, or she can give voice to Eurydice.

    Archive 2010-03-01 David McDuff 2010

  • We've allowed our system of governance to de-fund and de-prioritize higher education, putting our state's economic future in jeopardy.

    Gavin Newsom: Let's Get Our Priorities Straight 2009

  • As bandwidth is currently a finite resource, prioritizing network packets to preferred sites would thereby de-prioritize packets sent to others--though not to a degree discernible by the average user, according to BellSouth's McCloskey.

    Whose Line Is It Anyway? 2006

  • Getting your reward in the next world (if you belief there is some kind of punishment/reward system) is another way to ignore or de-prioritize the problems of the world.

    catpewk Diary Entry catpewk 2005

  • Once again, our country has managed to de-prioritize its people for the sake of policy and sweep the real social issues of the extreme rich/poor gap that plagues our country neatly under the rug and out of the news.

    Feministing: October 2005 Archives 2005

  • It seems now they don't outright block you, but even if you are not exceeding your allotted upload bandwidth, they will de-prioritize your packets.

    Infinite Monkeys - "...a sparkly blog..." - James Lileks 2010

  • Number two, you know, losing net neutrality then allows these companies to prioritize some traffic-video, say-and de-prioritize others, and then what effectively happens is the internet becomes like cable television, where Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Time

    Democracy Now! 2010

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