0 very important and needing attention immediately: --
1 (especially of a person's actions) repeated and determined in trying to get or do something: --
His urgent pleas of innocence made no difference to the judge's decision.
Cuts in benefit, combined with urgent demands to move into compliance, may be more appropriate as an immediate response.
Our fieldwork pointed up two further areas of concern, both of which need close and urgent attention in programmes of professional development for heads.
Whatever the interpretation, the cumulative research and survey data since 1978 suggests an urgent need to took at the justifications, dynamics and effectiveness of grouping.
When the question about the goal is answered, the question about conditions for such successful achievements becomes even more urgent.
However, if the medical conditions of those others will deteriorate while they await treatment, that could put even more people in "urgent need" of treatment.
Taking patient age distribution and medical advances into account, this will become a major medical problem of the twenty-first century; one that requires urgent attention.
At the same time, the need for careful linguistic description is as urgent as ever, for the dual purposes of scientific inquiry and clinical application.
Information from unconventional sources not related to the industry carries the extra burden of having to be proved relevant or urgent.
