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How to use the word urgency in a Sentence?

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We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now, this is not time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.

Martin Luther

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It appears to me that we have a lack of supervisory urgency here.

French Hill

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want to begin today by expressing how deeply sorry I am for the impact this derailment has had on the residents of East Palestine and the surrounding communities, i am determined to make this right. Norfolk Southern will clean the site safely, thoroughly and with urgency. You have my personal commitment. Norfolk Southern will get the job done and help East Palestine thrive.

Norfolk Southern CEO

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The world needs to act on climate change with far more urgency and ambition to protect the millions living in our coastal megacities.

Lourdes Tibig

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I myself have a strong sense of urgency that Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow.

Fumio Kishida

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I deeply regret it took this incident to elevate the urgency for this change and we are committed to ensuring that no one experiences lack of access to the stage again.

Cleo Parker Robinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can see an urgency to get some of these things in place and I think that’s been motivated, definitely, by this event.

Sam Dean

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s no question that as a country we need to look at the resilience of our infrastructure. And we need to do that with a much greater sense of urgency, I think, than we have ever seen before.

James Renwick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And now the humanitarian phase, the urgency of providing shelter, psychosocial care, food, schooling, and a sense of the future for these people, that’s our obligation now.

Kadir Kemal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Where’s the sense of urgency? Why is nobody helping these people? they were approved, many of them, and they didn’t see anything actually materialize out of that. So, we’re trying our best to fight for it.

Brian Hamman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

On one hand, I think it’s very important to drive a sense of urgency. I applaud him for that. He’s an aggressive commander, on the other hand, I would not paint it as inevitable that we will be in war, and I hope we will do everything we can to deter a conflict.

Mark Esper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s a sense of urgency and a sense of opportunity.

Jocelyn Benson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I just want him to hear about the pain and the struggles that we go through on a daily basis, and just really urge him to act with urgency, i think he more than anyone, given everything he’s gone through, would have the empathy to understand the pain that we go through.

Tara Tahbaz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Dreamers are integrated in our communities and contribute billions of dollars to our economy. They work as teachers, nurses, farm workers, and in many other essential jobs — and they deserve relief once and for all. I call on all my colleagues to treat this issue with the urgency it deserves.

Alex Padilla

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is the moral duty of all to never forget : an obligation that has taken on heightened urgency as atrocities are perpetrated around the globe, including by Russia against Ukraine.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The arrest of Robert Telles is at once an enormous relief and an outrage for the Las Vegas Review-Journal newsroom, we thank Las Vegas police for their urgency and hard work and for immediately recognizing the terrible significance of Jeff's killing. Now, hopefully, Las Vegas Review-Journal, the German family and Jeff's many friends can begin the process of mourning and honoring a great man and a brave reporter. Godspeed, Jeff German.

Glenn Cook

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know from evaluations that we've done, because there's a strong evaluation component, that when this work is happening in those 700 communities across the country, the rates of substance use in youth like tobacco, drugs, marijuana and others goes down as compared to those that don't have these programs in their communities, this is a top priority, with a sense of urgency to address the abuse crisis, but it starts with prevention and prevention is the best return on investment when you look at it. And getting money directly to communities is so vital to make sure that [prevention programs] are working and they're working effectively.

Rahul Gupta

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is a top priority, with a sense of urgency to address the abuse crisis, but it starts with prevention and prevention is the best return on investment when you look at it. And getting money directly to communities is so vital to make sure that [prevention programs] are working and they're working effectively.

Rahul Gupta

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I would never have my clients do anything like this, especially given the acrimonious relationship between the ex-wife and the widow. There was no urgency to the matter and the request could be misconstrued, attorneys have process servers and paralegals who can easily obtain a death certificate. It makes no sense to reach out to the wife.

Todd Spodek

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I know how it goes. People invite you to places when you get some recognition. But Brandon Brown [ Brown ] was genuinely Brandon Brown, brandon Brown could have waited. Brandon Brown could have just seen the book and said,' That's cool.' But Brandon Brown understood the urgency of creating awareness.

Brandon Brundidge

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is heartbreaking as a mom to think that any of our young people are making that decision knowing full well what it means, and I take responsibility and urgency in making sure that we can ease that decision because no child should ever have to think that way.

Michelle Wu

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I know attention to this crisis is very fleeting, i have a sense of urgency of getting a piece of legislation that we can shop to colleagues. I don't know what we'll have by Monday.

Chris Murphy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today, given the urgency of the crisis, we're announcing another $ 215 million in new emergency food assistance, and we'll do much more, we expect our Congress very soon to approve approximately $ 5.5 billion in additional funding for humanitarian assistance and food security.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was exciting to find new species, but in the field, we saw the forest on fire, logging trucks carrying out huge trees, and cleared patches turned into cattle pasture. This made us feel a lot of urgency to document these species and publish this paper as quickly as possible.

Murilo Pastana

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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