Sentence examples for pressing appointments from inspiring English sources

At Fortieth Street, Henry and I, who had pressing appointments in Manhattan, disembarked ("Oh, no. I think I forgot something," I said. "I have to get off"), leaving a trail of plumage behind.

All I can say is that it's lucky I didn't have any pressing appointments this morning so I could respond to the flood of invective that came my way.

Mann had no pressing appointments, as Washington whirred with talk of energy policy.

If you've long since lost touch with anything other than deadlines and pressing appointments, and feel that people only let you down, learning to look at people with trust and openness can take time but do persevere because it'll turn your world around 360 degrees.

She feigned a pressing appointment, paid full price for her crackers and sodium-free vegetable broth.

The Grinch cannot stick around to carve the roast beast because of a pressing appointment with the lawyers handling his defense in a class-action lawsuit filed by dissident Whos.

Mr. Dickens said that on a case-by-case basis, embassies and consulates would be permitted to issue the old-style paper-photograph passports for Americans who need to travel urgently -- for pressing business appointments, for example, or because a flight home cannot be rescheduled.

The most pressing of the appointments are the NLRB postions since the labor board will not have enough members to function when the term of board Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce expires on Aug. 27.

At the national level, the focus will be primarily on reforming essential ministries and pressing for the appointment of competent and honest ministers and governors.

That is what progressives are trying to do in pressing for the appointment of Elizabeth Warren -- nothing more and nothing less.

Elliott nodded at one of them, and Duncan marched toward it briskly, an Englishman with pressing West Coast business appointments who'd traveled some time out of his hectic schedule to stand on a sidewalk, and then break into someone's house for the hell of it.