urgency

How To Use urgency In A Sentence

• My chest begins to hurt with more insistency, a couple of coughs rippling through me; there's no time for that now though, as my mind cries out in urgency.
• Now, moreover, with the nation in an economic downturn, is not the time to assert the urgency of passing referendum legislation.
• In the UK that is called conspiring to pervert the cause of justice and it's a very serious matter and I think the Metropolitan Police now have to look at this as a matter of urgency. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• Counterinsurgency operations failed to end support for the separatists.
• She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities. Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
• But these statistics represent neither success nor failure in this complex counterinsurgency. Times, Sunday Times
• I need not press the urgency of the matter on you, as I konw you are fully aware of it yourselves.
• But when it's the sole story-telling medium, as here, I also think it has a slight distancing effect on the reader, robbing the action of some immediacy and urgency, which for modern sensibilities is perhaps not ideal when dealing with such dramatic events. Brian Ruckley - News & Views
• The insurgency is concealed in rugged terrain and grows stronger. Times, Sunday Times
• Dolphin added: "The only pledge that we would preserve is higher funding for international development, not only because it is a relatively small amount of spending (although it is) but in recognition of the urgency of providing more funds to low-income countries badly hit by a financial crisis not of their making. Don't spare the NHS from cuts, says leftwing thinktank