In his hastily arranged address to the nation on Thursday night, Obama outlined the principles for his decision to intervene, but he was silent regarding long-term strategy, to say nothing of how the United States might end military operations.
In a hastily arranged address on Saturday night, President Obama said he planned to name a nominee, over the protests of Republicans who could seek to prevent the Senate from voting on it.
Conversely, when some big event occurs in the world, something that may even be called world-changing, it's the task of journalists to relay it to us and analyse it, though some novelists may also feel impelled hastily to address such events from a variety of motives, pure and impure.
In a hastily arranged address to the American people on Thursday night, President Barack Obama spoke for only eight minutes about his authorisation of combat and humanitarian operations in Iraq.
"I ask solemnly for the liberation" of the hostages, President Jacques Chirac said in a brief and hastily scheduled televised address.
President Ben Ali gave a hastily scheduled televised address on Thursday night, his second in the past week, and this time he appeared rattled.
Vice-president Joe Biden ended months of speculation on Wednesday about whether he would run for president, appearing in a hastily announced White House address to say that his window of opportunity to "mount a winning campaign for the nomination" had closed.
Buying three dozen of these, she hurried home, hastily signed them, addressed the envelopes and mailed them.
At the office of a friend – whose address was hastily borrowed to protect Roman's privacy – cards and gifts began to arrive.
In an interview with CBS, he noted that a person on the no-fly list "could go into a store right now in the United States and buy a firearm and there's nothing that we can do to stop them"; on Thursday, a hastily prepared measure to address that died in the Senate.
