They also appear at a time when the need to devise means to improve America's tarnished international image, particularly in the Islamic world, appears pressing.
An implication of Reid's application of his common sense method to first principles is that Reid is not concerned to answer questions of justification that appear pressing to contemporary epistemologists.
The Committee on Global Thought launched a new research project, "Thoughts on a Changing World," in April 2017, by hosting a virtual conversation among participants on campus and at Columbia's nine Global Centers to discuss issues that appeared most pressing in our respective local contexts.
Until recently, the need for regulation, transparency and sound corporate governance had appeared less pressing against a backdrop of abundant cash and strong economic growth.
It has always been part of people's daily lives, as a very prevalent symptom of a multitude of disorders (but only a few of public-health importance), but scarcely has it appeared of pressing importance or deserving of high priority.
Participants were instructed to compare the magnitudes of the two target columns from the top to the bottom pair (row) as soon as Display 2 appeared, by pressing the left key if the left digit was larger and the right key if the right digit was larger.
When the Samsung logo appears, stop pressing the power button, while continuing to press and hold the volume buttons.
Ideally Sunderland would strengthen in every department but left-back and centre-half appear particularly pressing priorities.
Yet the mundane political issues of the day often appear quite pressing, not to mention politically safer than enabling a new product that is likely to engender controversy.
Thus while Strether becomes captivated himself by Paris, its beauty, the freedom it offers, the people he meets, the demands of Chad's austere and worthy mother appear more pressing.
