Sentence examples for pressing items from inspiring English sources

With Zarqawi they became pressing items of a current political agenda.

— It might be assumed that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has more pressing items on her to-do list than making it each year to the local Memorial Day Parade.

It's easy to make sport of such glosses on the biblical scheme of things; one would hope, at the end of the day, that the creator of the universe has more pressing items on his to-do list than Joel Osteen's search for optimal parking or Donald Trump's fantasias of boardroom dominance.

So even though the Treaty of Amsterdam conspicuously failed to address, let alone resolve, the most pressing items on its official agenda such as weighting of Council votes and recasting Member State "representation" in the Commission, the Treaty was hugely important for that very fact, i.e., for what was not decided.

But Mr Oulds, who supports the plan for an airport on economic grounds, said the money would be better spent on "more pressing items", and the council should be trying to find a logical conclusion to the argument rather than pushing through an unbalanced campaign.

Along with searching through old records and receipts I am regularly reminded of other pressing items when mailings in my father's name arrive forwarded to my new Delaware address alongside a stream of emails that continue to appear in my inbox from our family accountant and attorney.

The bulletin board by the antique clock and modest war memorial in the small traffic circle features one pressing item.

THE LEGISLATORS of British Columbia have convened this week for an autumn session, something that only happens when there is a really pressing item on the agenda.

While Berlusconi's one-day visit was billed as a courtesy call, certainly one pressing item on his agenda was to mollify Qaddafi on the reparations question, and it was largely in hopes of a breakthrough that some 40 Italian journalists flew into Tripoli with the prime minister.

The most pressing item on his list was a haircut.

The most pressing item on the product development agenda was the ailing apple of my eye, Sharps Fresh Roasting.