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These groups have had little power within the country's political institutions and have been increasingly exercising pressure through the courts and street demonstrations.No exigency will be more pressing, however, than combating violent crime, and reforming the police and criminal justice systems, widely deemed to be corrupt and nearly in collapse.
After countless false dawns, Japan may at last have the combination of political circumstance and economic exigency to make reform inevitable and, in Mr Abe, a leader with the nous to bring it about.
It may turn out that for a vast array of metals, recycling will soon no longer be a lifestyle choice; it shall become an economic exigency.
Ford was, however, forced by financial exigency to sell him to the brutal John M. Tibaut (referred to as John M. Tibeats in 12 Years a Slave) in 1842.
There is little doubt that it was in response to the exigency of those pressing circumstances that Ibn al-Qifṭī included in his History of Wise Men the fantastic story of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ ordering the books of the ancient Library of Alexandria to be used as fuel for heating the city bath.
As I heard this, I remembered that earlier this year Cameron's close friend and shadow cabinet member Ed Vaizey said Cameron is "much more Conservative than he acts, or than he is forced to be by political exigency".
Thus do creationists, in the service of reasongiving exigency , force the Holy Scripture to do double duty as a high-school biology textbook).
For the usual reasons of exigency and inertia — that is, life — he stayed put in his job, while his party and institution deteriorated.
(General Moore died, in 1809, in Spain, while leading his troops to a magnificent long-shot victory over the French, and his last words were, "I hope my country will do me justice". Military exigency did not allow time for a suitable burial — a lack for which the poem seeks to indemnify him).
And no chemical analysis can sort out, in a given sale price, a ratio of considerations that may include honest judgment, heartfelt passion, and competitive exigency.
Conveying the layers of meaning and emotional tenor of a work of literature means using all the tools at hand, often in ad hoc ways: a good translation is driven not by theory but by exigency , by the particular pattern of gap and overlap in the pairing of two cultures.
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Exigency functions primarily as a noun, denoting a state of urgency or a pressing need. Ludwig indicates that it is used to describe situations that demand immediate attention or action. Examples showcase its usage across diverse contexts, highlighting its role in conveying critical or time-sensitive scenarios.
Expression frequency: Very common
