"pressing assistance" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is used to refer to assistance that is urgently needed and needed quickly. For example: "The family was in desperate need of pressing assistance in the aftermath of the tornado."
"It's wonderful to see this bill moving," said Julie Rochman, a spokeswoman for the American Insurance Association, a trade group that has been pressing for government assistance.
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Pressing need throughout Osh With thousands of families displaced by the violence, their livelihoods and homes destroyed, there is a pressing need for assistance throughout the city of Osh and in neighbouring communities in southern Kyrgyzstan.
A Pentagon advisory panel that just returned from Iraq reported a pressing need for international assistance.
By settling, the former players and their families won immediate financial assistance for pressing and sometimes costly medical problems.
The Pentagon is pressing hard to resume assistance to the Indonesian military in an effort to re-establish American influence in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Ms. Lettman-Hicks said in an interview that she was pressing the Department of Justice for assistance both because of frustration with the local investigation but also because, unlike federal law, Mississippi's hate crime statute does not cover sexual orientation.
The agency has taken the action as the White House and the insurance, banking and real estate industries are pressing Congress to provide assistance that would enable insurance companies to offer terrorism coverage at greatly reduced risk.
Although critics have blamed the administration of George W. Bush for mismanaging the TARP fund by not pressing the banks receiving assistance to increase their lending, the new round of capital injections is not expected to come with government demands that the institutions provide more loans.
Based on all the respondents, among the 10 mentioned possibilities, the reasons identified by at least 90% of the participants for call light use were: (1) pain medication and management (the most often identified reason), (2) bathroom assistance, (3) intravenous problems or pump alarm, (4) personal assistance, (5) accidental pressing of the call light, and (6) repositioning or transfer (Table 3).
