The phrase "regard as top priority" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to consider or treat something as the most important or urgent matter to be dealt with. Example: In order to meet our project deadline, we need to regard this task as top priority and allocate more resources to it.
Second, when top priority, the stronger a leader's psychopathy trait, the lower his or her perception of CSR as top priority, and no moderating effect was significant.
English language skills were identified as top priority for further emphasis.
The latter regarded stabilization and the reduction of the budget deficit as top priorities, but bank chairman Gerashchenko disagreed, stating that industrial chaos and monopolies rendered these policies inoperative.
Cleaning up the Capitol in Baton Rouge, which Mr. Jindal has promised to make his first order of business, is unlikely to be regarded as a top priority, as it hardly has been in the past, by a Legislature jealous of its perquisites.
Mr. Fine's office found that in the years before the attacks, the F.B.I. devoted "significantly more" resources to traditional law enforcement than to terrorism, even though national security was regarded as its top priority.
Under the plan, which was denounced by environmental groups, the federal agency would focus on listing endangered species it regards as a top priority, while essentially ignoring any new court orders.
Yet the ICM survey finds that only 16% of voters regard this as their top priority.
Start with underwear, socks, and work clothes as top-priority items.
We may not regard the environment as a top priority given the state of the economy, but we are concerned about environmental impacts and are keen to see environmental challenges addressed.
Chamberlain, the astute radical leader, like many others of his class and generation, ceased to regard social reform as a top priority and worked in harness with Hartington, his Whig counterpart.
I regard the four majors as my top priority of the year".
