The phrase "attaching significance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of giving meaning or importance to something, often in a context of interpretation or analysis.
Example: "In her analysis, she emphasized the importance of attaching significance to cultural symbols in understanding societal values."
Alternatives: "assigning meaning" or "imparting importance".
Still, attaching significance to baseball's All-Star Game has probably had a positive effect on its competitiveness.
"People recognize we're BlackBerry supporters, and they're taking a very routine event and they're attaching significance to it".
And since he does not say anything about constraints or important considerations arising from the distribution of happiness and suffering, the most plausible reading of this passage would involve accepting aggregation, in which the happiness and suffering of all beings are considered together, without attaching significance to how these are distributed.
Edward W. James, commented that attaching significance to the constellation on the celestial sphere the sun is in at sunset was done on the basis of human factors namely, that astrologers didn't want to wake up early, and the exact time of noon was hard to know.
The various methods for CMA that have been developed in the past 15 years differ in the measures they employ for attaching significance to the correlations (Livesay et al., 2012; de Juan et al., 2013; Mao et al., 2015).
And hoarders attach significance to every object.
CINCINNATI — Baseball players attach significance to routine, find comfort in repetition.
Paul Skillen Belfast The film is about naming, names and appearances - Diane attaches significance to characters she meets and situations that she is in which require no such significance.
True collectors, he added, don't attach significance to individual objects; it's the whole that matters.
For instance, they attached significance to perfect numbers i.e., those that equal the sum of their proper divisors.
Gestalt theorists also attached significance to the observer's history of stimulation; indeed, some of them interpreted so-called figural aftereffects within a Gestaltist model of brain functioning.
