urgency
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Leo Lieghio, vice president of the Irish Road Victims Association, has called for greater urgency in tackling road deaths.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
With a diagnosis comes some urgency to travel, learn and live as long as possible, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
“Nick’s sense of urgency is real, but it did not arise in a vacuum,” lawyers for the former manager of the trust wrote Thursday in a lengthy response to Reiner’s demand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Koizumi said last week that Japan needed to boost its military with a "sense of urgency and crisis".
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Despite the fact that he’d spent years planning for this very day, there was no urgency as he spread butter and jam on a fresh baguette he’d purchased from the corner bakery.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
And I use the word modern, meaning these characters’ urgencies, their interiorities, their conflict, the ways in which they contradict themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
They cited his “timeless modern design that confronts climate urgencies, transforms social relationships and reinvigorates cities.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
"We are ready to give Italy a government that addresses the urgencies and challenges of our time with understanding and competence," Meloni wrote on Facebook on Thursday.
From Reuters ● Oct. 21, 2022
Those I criticize, of course, would describe the moral urgencies very differently.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2022
When you're dying for so long, old urgencies wither and die.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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