'priority matter' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is considered especially important, usually in relation to a specific task that needs to be completed. For example, "This is a priority matter that needs to be handled immediately."
Mr. Barrionuevo of BNP Paribas said such a swap would probably be used for Argentina's domestic debt, whose interest and principal payments were the priority matter.
"I find it extraordinary that the Human Rights Commission would consider this a priority matter when those who would not get a second payment have an average family income of $150,000," he said.
I think this investigation is a priority matter for the government, but these matters do take a very long time.
The issue was not thought to be a high policy priority matter for organizational boards.
Recruiting greater numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to the health workforce was seen by most participants as a high priority matter that would help to alleviate patients' concerns and anxieties about their health care.
"I think we will be in a position to deliver to you an interim report … a relatively short list of the 10 or 12 highest priority matters we feel need to be addressed," said Faulkner, president emeritus of the University of Texas, Austin.
They've asked for submissions from the community that will create a list of priority matters to be seen to.
"That's why priorities matter".
"Bank robberies in various FBI jurisdictions have taken very much of a back seat; it's the lowest-priority matter the Bureau now handles".
"I'm guessing if they really did have him as a suspect, they would have had him under surveillance, and it didn't sound like they did," says Rehder, who noted that since 9/11 and the subsequent focus on anti-terrorism efforts, "bank robberies in various FBI jurisdictions have taken very much of a back seat; it's the lowest-priority matter the Bureau now handles".
Six attacks had been thwarted, he said, and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation was investigating 400 high-priority matters.
