Sentence examples for about the pressing from inspiring English sources

The fate of island nations could turn on Beijing's acceptance of, or denial about, the pressing need to start leaving the black stuff in the ground.

Suddenly, a campaign that was supposed to be about the pressing issues of property taxes and government ethics reform has been covered in mud, with arguments over the personal conduct of the candidates eclipsing any discussions of policy.

But Attlee was rightly concerned about the pressing needs of the already elderly, who had never had a chance to pay in, so it was operated as pay-as-you-go from the off.

Cantor describes "a temporary extension of the debt ceiling in exchange for a real commitment by this president.. to sit down and talk about the pressing problems facing the American people... it's about time this has happened".

His peers are older now, many of them married with children in college, as he is, and Mr. Weller, 65, is still writing about the pressing concerns of his generation.

A week ago the White House tried to arrange a speech by President Obama about the pressing issue of the day, jobs and the economy, but Representative John A. Boehner, the speaker of the House, balked because of the Republican candidates' debate that night.

The addict mumbled about all the pressing things he had to do, even though he wasn't working (I also overheard this) and his family threw him out.

In Augustine, the background for caring so much about knowledge is the pressing question of whether we can know God: whether we can know that he exists and what his properties are.

Over the next year, I want to try and answer some of the pressing questions about pay, chief among them: are they worth it?

Of late we have heard from Judi Dench, Mike Leigh, Kathy Burke and good old Sting about the allegedly pressing need to liberalise the drug laws.

A veterinarian who cared for his stable of racehorses said Mr. Brooks continually talked about the subject, pressing him repeatedly to supply the pill.