'priority items' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to items that are of top priority or high importance. For example, you could say "The priority items on today's agenda are discussing our budget and setting new goals."
The priority items on Africa's development agenda are well known.
Pile A: Priority items that require your personal attention and represent matters of indisputable importance.
So I decided that we were only going to do the highest priority items and do them very, very well.
A long list of priority items as artillery and field radioes has been for warded to Washington.
Money spent on priority items like alimony and back taxes, though, would not count toward the 20percentt.
It failed to win a vote in committee, however, and was not one of Mr. Perry's priority items.
The senior Canadian official said the trucking program was one of a handful of high-priority items for his country on the 30-point border action plan.
It's not clear when that may happen, as Congress' agenda is filled this fall with high-priority items such as taxes and immigration.
Part of the manager's mental map consists of these low-priority items: errands to run, questions to see people about, and so on.
Officials at the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill said the money would be pulled from lower-priority items like heavy trucks — of which the military has more than needed, officials said — and communications systems not required for Iraq or Afghanistan.
"It's very clear to me that national missile defense is one of the high-priority items -- and therefore one they'll address early on," said Jacques S. Gansler, who until last week was undersecretary of defense for acquisition and technology.
