The ongoing violence underlines the urgency for the parties to the conflict to take immediate action to avoid slipping back into a state of war.
The news added urgency to the ongoing debate over government belt-tightening in Europe.
In Iraq, video imagery of Saddam's Kurdish gas victims ultimately came out, but it took years; there was no sense of urgency or an ongoing threat.
All this confusion – the sustainability or otherwise of certain species, the codliness or otherwise of our fish suppers, Saint Hugh's "misleading and one-sided" Fish Fight – gives weight and urgency to this ongoing problem, and we can be confident that sooner, rather than later, Friday's dinner won't be such an ethical minefield.
The continued threat of additional viral adaptation to human hosts leading to increased transmissibility lends added urgency to the ongoing improvement of the PUE system to better understand the epidemiology of A(H7N9), detect outbreaks, and evaluate control measures.
Just as all emerging markets are facing the middle-income trap at once, so the developed world finds itself having to address all of its huge structural overhangs, and with great urgency, thanks to the ongoing financial crisis.
The fatal blaze added urgency to L.A.'s ongoing struggle to find housing for a ballooning homeless population, including those who create makeshift homes inside vacant buildings scattered across the city.
The urgency and magnitude of ongoing disputes have to serve as an incentive to displace the old "ASEAN Way" of gradualist, consensus-based decision-making, which has woefully fallen short of coping with emerging security challenges in the region.
Reasons for suboptimal control need to be identified and rectified with some urgency to ensure that ongoing use of simple telehealth in this way is optimised.
It is our hope that this account will challenge the assumption that quality control around HIV testing need not be a high priority, lending urgency and perspective to ongoing efforts to establish quality control measures in resource constrained settings.
