Such arbitrary behavior is deemed inappropriate here unless the crisis is an obvious, immediate matter of survival that merits declaration of a national state of emergency.
For makers of gear that helps avert global warming, it is perhaps a more immediate matter of life-and-death.
"Those are the ideas," says Jeyasingh, but having come direct from rehearsal, she knows there is a more immediate matter to deal with, the final and perhaps hardest part of the puzzle: "It has to work as dance".
Back in Des Moines, state officials are preoccupied with a more immediate matter: what to do about this year's open enrollment, which starts this week, and the thousands of people about to face prohibitive rate hikes.
But as an immediate tactical matter, the White House argues that the dispute is none of its business: it is a matter for member states.In short, as the administration sees it, there are problems, but no cause for panic or policy adjustment.
With Thomas Cooper there was discussion of plans to kidnap the Pope and to release Tshombe, as well as of the more immediate matter of killing someone involved in a case at the Old Bailey.
Then there was the more immediate matter of the approaching spring.
The immediate matter in hand is not highly tempting chocolate, but executive pay.
But that response has lost its clarity in the general election, as the question of what Clinton is fighting for has become entangled in the more immediate matter of whom she is fighting against.
Although Argentina has enough cash to pay the $1.4 billion at stake in the immediate matter, its leaders worry that the precedent could encourage countless other creditors — including many that already accepted lower-valued bonds in exchange for defaulted notes — to sue as well, demanding 100 cents on the dollar.
