"lend importance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to emphasize the importance of something. For example, "The program will lend importance to the role of women in the workplace."
From having led the charge for international involvement in the region and first raising the specter of genocide, the Bush administration has been noticeably reluctant to lend importance to the declaration of genocide unanimously passed by Congress.
Your presence alone will lend importance to the event: there's strength in attendance.
Fine Bindings and Illustrations: A book can have physical characteristics that lend importance - a special binding, first use of a new printing process, an innovative design, an autograph or inscriptions.
This year, Serena's character has consistently been used as a prop to lend importance to the show's guest star storyline of the moment.
These findings lend importance to further explore the effect of dietary intake of healthy mothers on NBW in larger-scale studies and provide focus for early dietary intervention measures to improve maternal-neonatal outcome.
Considering the potential for conjugative transfer and dissemination of these Class I plasmids, the large genetic carrying capacity, their propensity to recombine, and the extended host range encoded by repABC lend importance to the study of the evolution and interactions of this group of plasmids, and the bacteria that harbor them.
"An anniversary lends importance to your event and your content," said Jim Nelson, GQ's editor in chief, who knew the magazine's 45th anniversary hoopla five years ago was slightly specious and who can't understand why he has recently been invited to two separate rounds of 25th high school reunion events.
A photo posted by Keita Balde Diao✔ (@keitabalde14) on Feb 3 , 2016at 4 07pm PST However, Lazio manager, Stefano Pioli disagreed with the referee's decision: "I would not have stopped the match as that only lends importance to a minority of fans".
18 Intervention studies to tackle low health literacy have led to improvements in self care and quality of life, lending importance to health literacy as a potentially modifiable risk factor.
"They give some color to the area and lend some importance to Green's Farms in the eyes of some people," said Ronald Vigars, president of the Green's Farms Association and a 25-year resident of the area.
From a primary prevention perspective, this finding is comforting and partially dismisses the need to lend exaggerated importance to symptoms of NSLBP in adolescents.
