The phrase "given a lower priority" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used in business or organizational contexts, to describe a task or project that has been assigned a lower level of importance or urgency compared to others. Example: "Due to budget constraints, the new marketing campaign was given a lower priority than the product development project."
I have heard of cases where people with disabilities are given a lower priority for life-saving antiretrovirals.
(For the record, we think that's also a misleading term, since downgrading implies video streams are simply being given a lower priority than other traffic.
One of the problems has been that many countries in western Europe have given a lower priority to the Eastern Partnership than they might have done.
We can see that the local work, which is given a lower priority, overlaps with the communication needed for the higher-priority remote work, resulting in close to 100% processor utilization.
Little is known regarding the nature of primary care in post-conflict communities for several reasons, including: data collection is often given a lower priority than the immediate medical care needs in emergencies; and dynamic changes in a patient population and their needs make it difficult to collect data over the long term.
Indonesia's high population and rapid industrialization present serious environmental issues, which are often given a lower priority due to high poverty levels and weak, under-resourced governance.
Sutton made it clear that he would give a lower priority to protecting players' feelings.
The chiefs, though, are expected to argue that current readiness continues to face strains because of the high pace of operations overseas, which forces the services to give a lower priority to forces that are not deployed.
What that shows is that debates over even very specific principles like these can end up grounding out — either the participants will end up defending their favored principles by appealing to those very principles (citing the book to defend the book) or appealing to other specific principles that the other side shares but gives a lower priority.
It gave a lower priority to the supply component in service delivery.
Such barriers made it necessary to give a lower priority to psychosocial research.
