Sentence examples for urgency toward from inspiring English sources

Instead of prodding Athens, Rogge tweaked the organizers from Turin, Italy, to show more urgency toward their big moment in 2006.

In a long list of forthcoming appointments, aides said, Mr. Obama is acting with the greatest urgency toward choosing a Treasury secretary and is said to be considering Lawrence H. Summers, who held the post during the Clinton administration, and Timothy F. Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

We've already seen declining attendance at Sept. 11 memorials and read warnings by the 9/11 Commission about a "waning sense of urgency" toward threats of future attacks.

It means that the only powerful people who showed an appropriate level of urgency toward the public's ongoing crisis were, ironically, the only ones who won't have to answer to the public this November.

Consciously or unconsciously, he has been caught up by the Zeitgeist, and with his black brothers of Africa and his brown and yellow brothers of Asia, South America and the Caribbean, the United States Negro is moving with a sense of great urgency toward the promised land of racial justice.

This 'wait and see' approach implies a lack of urgency toward aggressive treatment and may contribute to the 'no need' attitude, felt by some, for referral to a rheumatologist (Table 4).

While the characters agonize over the war on terror, Raban's sense of political urgency edges toward bluster and trips up his more penetrating comic agility.

That same combination is what gives the issue of global warming so political an edge right now: the urgency is directed toward particular policies and the blame toward particular parties.

There was urgency throughout, reaching toward anxiety in the first Gavotte and the Gigue.

After all, these weekend warriors are unlikely to feel the same sense of urgency they would toward a primary residence, so they can afford to take their time and handle building projects in bite-size pieces.

George W. Bush did not attend), called for governments to act "with a sense of urgency" to work toward several goals, among them a substantial increase in the use of renewable sources of energy (such as solar power), a great improvement in the accessibility of clean water and sanitary facilities, and the phasing out of the use and production of chemicals harmful to humans and the environment.