accord preference
accord priority

For example, every institution would claim to accord high priority to the quality of teaching.

So, certainly, we are going to accord very high priority to nuclear safety in our relations with third countries, including some that you have mentioned.

In the vote, we have therefore chosen to support those amendments that accord priority to research, development and education.

They were perhaps justified in their anger at the relatively low priority accorded to older people.

Important management decisions relate to the levels of priority accorded to different groups for accommodation.

Dredd takes this as a sign of the low priority accorded to his mission.

The minority report recommended that the social services should be developed first and accorded less priority to family allowances.

Improved planning and coordination of such projects at the local level will be accorded priority in realizing this goal.

The first regards the priority accorded to providing an adequate minimum scale of equipment to schools.

Women and children, especially, are accorded high priority.