Scarcely less gripping (or more overtly political) than the previous Bigelow-Boal collaboration, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty opens by announcing itself as "based on first-hand accounts of actual events" and then, with the screen still dark, plays the real sounds of 9/11 – genuine panic and death in the World Trade Centre, urgent declarations of love mixed with desperate calls for help.
Muslim clerics gathered with clergy of other faiths to offer, in the words of the Declaration, an "urgent and radical reappraisal" of modern society.
The transplant physicians agreed to keep the dates as scheduled and confirmed the exception as Declaration of Urgent Medical Need of the transplant.
They also often speak in urgent, public-bulletin-style declarations that help fill us in on recent events, like: "Willow Turner is missing.
Most members of the Council, including the United States, insisted that the failings of Iraq's arms declaration made it urgent to support the weapons inspectors in their search for evidence in Iraq.
The final declaration, completed Thursday, sought "urgent and coordinated action" to address the problems associated with higher food prices, to raise food production, to lower trade barriers and to increase research in agriculture.
The declaration calls for an urgent reversal of these trends to achieve education goals by the 2015 deadline.
"To the contrary, we are now working with countries not only to plan for the urgent needs arising from fee abolition declarations, but also to use the challenges as opportunities to engage in much-needed system reforms around quality education".
The questions one could ask of the Declaration are as vital and urgent today as they have ever been, which is all the more reason to ask aloud.
In the form of a political declaration, they should recognise the urgent humanitarian problem associated with the use of explosive weapons in populated areas, and commit to take concrete steps to address it.
