The phrase "an overriding priority for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to emphasize that something is of utmost importance or takes precedence over other considerations.
Example: "Ensuring the safety of our employees is an overriding priority for our management team."
Alternatives: "a top priority for" or "a primary concern for".
Suddenly, winning the National Football Conference East has become an overriding priority for the Giants.
She said Saturday at a news conference that applying for entry was an overriding priority for the Social Democrats, and that she hoped that terms for Iceland's membership could be agreed to within 12 to 18 months.
Infection control is recognised as an overriding priority for the delivery of critical care, including the ability, in the early stages, to cohort cases.
Growth and jobs remain an overriding priority for the EU as a whole.
Meanwhile down at the Carrier plant, people will be moved by an overriding priority – their desire for dignity and prosperity for themselves, and their community.
To make cutting inheritance tax for millionaires an overriding priority and to cut tax credits for middle-income families speaks loud and clear about their vision of our country.
The casks brought from Cuba were leaking and the expedition was now running dangerously low on fresh water; the hunt for more became an overriding priority as the expedition advanced, and shore parties searching for water were left dangerously exposed because the ships could not pull close to the shore due to the shallows.
Tokyo has made the fate of a dozen Japanese kidnapped by North Korea an overriding priority in dealing with the North.
At the same time, administration officials acknowledge that an overriding priority is to avoid American casualties and keep Kosovo out of the news during an election year.
Taiwan, of course, is of special significance to the Chinese; since 1949 the return of the island to China has been seen as an overriding priority.
In numerous papers, GCHQ reveals its need to keep the Americans happy, and how it regards this as an overriding priority.
