The phrase 'given lower priority' is a perfectly valid sentence fragment in written English.
You can use it when you want to suggest that a certain task, goal, or project has been or should be assigned a lower level of importance than others. For example, "Given lower priority than more pressing matters, the project was put on hold until further notice."
Veterans or survivors who are already receiving benefits but applying for new ones may, as a consequence, be given lower priority, the workers say.
But the director of one of the three camps, Spyros Kourtis, admitted that non-Syrians are given lower priority because officials assume that they do not have as strong a claim for asylum.
We need this fund because global humanitarian responses have always given lower priority and fewer resources to education than to other essentials like basic health care, shelter and nutrition.
Likewise, a user is given lower priority if he/she has been allocated more than bits after k time-slots.
Unfortunately, the funds available for the M&R of highway pavement are often given lower priority compared to other national development policies, therefore, available funds must be allocated wisely.
He's seen mental health be given lower priority since his first job in the policy-making world.
Top customs officials have already said they are giving lower priority to drug interdiction, which means that counterfeiting has moved even further down the list.
Late payment is a fact of life for small businesses, as customers often give lower priority to bills from small firms.
The AACE/ACE algorithm gives lower priority to colesevelam and α−glucosidase inhibitors due to their limited efficacy as monotherapy, and excludes cycloset.
The VHVs preferred interventions that target the youth or the general population, and gave lower priority to programs that target high risk groups.
It is impossible to be sure why committees give lower priority to hard science questions, since we have no data from interviews with committee members.
