"priority was placed on" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it in a sentence such as, "Priority was placed on maintaining the highest standards of customer service."
The participants playtested and evaluated the game based on the Pedagogical Playability Heuristics, which are different from existing heuristics developed for commercial games, as priority was placed on instructional design principles and the concept of playability.
Priority was placed on the appearance of the damage for each degree as described in EMS98, not on the resemblance with the actual facade.
During the design process, great priority was placed on facilitating and minimising aircraft maintenance; in addition to a maintenance-friendly layout, many subsystems and components require little or no maintenance at all.
Priority was placed on small amino acids that, when substituted with a cysteine, would result in a solvent exposed thiol group (Fig. 1 and Movie S1).
Priority was placed on this work.
In all sessions, priority was placed on following any instructions from the participant's primary physician.
The moral of the story is, New York wants to provide Internet access to its residents, a priority being placed on low-income ones, but doesn't particularly care to use Wi-Fi to get the job done.
"Priority is placed on the chastity of women.
Conversely, if priority is placed on rich material and inquiry, then the strategies are more likely to come naturally.
DF/HCC has a strong history of supporting junior investigators and within the ETCTN priority is placed on career development and the mentored training of junior investigators.
The highest priority is placed on a direct in situ geology at a crater central peak, "a window to the interior", where subcrustal materials are exposed and directly accessed without drilling.
