The phrase "assign priority" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the importance or urgency of tasks or items in a project or workflow.
Example: "In order to meet the deadline, we need to assign priority to the most critical tasks first."
Alternatives: "set priority" or "establish priority."
The agency has a system to assign priority rankings to airport projects.
In the past, we would assign priority based on wait time and likelihood of receiving DD offers.
He also said the bill would not assign priority status to chemicals that show up in the umbilical blood of newborns.
As major carriers plan to offer similar service to consumers, some say their ability to assign priority to voice packets -- given the carriers' role in regulating Internet traffic -- will provide better quality service than the independents can.
When we assign priority to the easy delivery and biological safety of these fields, the maximum heating power is obtained by the irradiation of a weak field at a medium frequency (∼1 MHz) on almost spherical magnetite nanomagnets with a diameter of approximately 20 nm.
We assign priority based on decreasing order serial from the updating protocols.
Where there are conflicting demands for a necessary, but limited, resource, the disaster managers must assign priorities.
A declarative way of controlling the resolution of conflicts is to assign priorities to default rules, and to prevent conflict resolution in ways that violate the priorities.
The system will gauge what the computer user is doing, assign priorities to the messages and decide whether and when to interrupt.
The design and construction process of a model to assist the Lisbon Municipality to assign priorities to these activities is described.
Some products automatically detect and assign priorities to streamed content, while others may require the user to manually set those parameters.
