The phrase "assigns priorities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of determining the importance or order of tasks, responsibilities, or items.
Example: "The project manager assigns priorities to the tasks to ensure that the most critical ones are completed first."
Alternatives: "sets priorities" or "establishes priorities".
One wireless expert said a weakness of the cellular networks was that operators have not adopted software that assigns priorities to various categories of callers.
She and a partner are starting a business, Message Protocols, in New York that is developing a mobile device application that assigns priorities to e-mail messages.
A new study raises serious concerns about the way the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission assigns priorities to worker claims and questions whether the agency can ever fulfill its mission of handling discrimination complaints without more money.
A new study raises serious concerns about the way the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission assigns priorities to worker claims and questions whether the agency can ever fulfill its mission of handling employment discrimination complaints without more money.
According to Marisa Kollias, a spokeswoman for the system, decisions to fill vacancies must be approved by a recruitment and talent team in the human resources department and a position-control committee that assigns priorities to staffing the positions.
In the so-called Cahn-Ingold-Prelog (CIP) protocol (named after British chemists Robert Cahn and Sir Christopher Ingold and Swiss chemist Vladimir Prelog), one first assigns priorities to the four atoms attached to the stereogenic atom, in this case the carbon at the centre of the tetrahedron.
To apply the "signature-based" ordering, the algorithm assigns priority-values to candidate actions.
Where there are conflicting demands for a necessary, but limited, resource, the disaster managers must assign priorities.
Or, if funds are limited, public investment projects may be assigned priorities according to their cost-benefit ratios.
The system will gauge what the computer user is doing, assign priorities to the messages and decide whether and when to interrupt.
He estimated that all the recommended work would cost about $200,000 and said that his office was in the process of assigning priorities to the architects' recommendations.
