"meet pressing needs" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase when you are talking about addressing urgent or immediate requirements. For example, "We need to meet pressing needs for food and shelter for those affected by the flood."
The push for more flexibility is coming from elected officials, community groups and building industry professionals who say unauthorized units continue to flourish despite enforcement crackdowns because they meet pressing needs: they house lower-income tenants, they help homeowners pay mortgages and they accommodate some of the city's growing population.
A year of service is a chance for citizens to meet pressing needs, from illiteracy and homelessness, to hunger, environmental challenges and natural disasters.
To respond to the crisis, UNICEF is expanding emergency interventions to meet pressing needs on the ground.
We can directly create jobs that put people to work helping communities meet pressing needs, including in distressed communities facing severe unemployment.
Internal bureaucracy, short investment horizons, high return expectations, and risk aversion all hinder companies from investing needed cash to meet pressing social needs.
Conformity to standards of quality, safety and financial management of course have an important place, but that is not the same as being compelled to meet arbitrary targets at the expense of reforms to meet pressing local needs.
At a time when governments, economists and businesspeople are desperately looking for new solutions to deliver us from a recession and meet pressing social needs, Carlos Fernández Isoird and Inigo Urkidi think they have the answer.
However, to perform the scale of simulations that industry requires, to meet pressing environmental needs, challenges remain.
But Mr Abe, who was elected in December, has indicated he wants to restart the reactors after safety checks to meet pressing power needs.
Like his predecessors, he assumes, without any hard evidence, that the Christian community conspired to reinvent Jesus in order to meet pressing social needs.
President Reveley's recent post, Nurturing Citizen Leaders Starts in Higher Education, highlights one of our new programs, enlisting dedicated graduates in service to the community, each with specific jobs designed to meet pressing local needs.
