0 the difficulties of a situation, especially one that causes urgent demands: --
Economic exigency obliged the government to act.
the exigencies of war
The architecture for autonomous navigation must cope with the exigencies imposed by the challenging and hostile environment.
This means that judgements arrived at in the domain of moral philosophy have necessarily to be tested against the exigencies and vicissitudes of moral practice.
Popular exigencies transcending the parties weighed heavily on the government.
The exigencies of social and family reproduction forced the family to make a profit from its economic enterprises and defined the goal of production.
Note that the use of transfer to meet the exigencies of communication has frequently been named as a process that drives creolization.
To some extent this is an inevitable result of modernisation, and the exigencies of urban life.
Schegloff 1979 discusses this and other instances to explore the effects of interactional exigencies on the syntactic form of the sentence-in-progress produced under such exigencies.
In both countries political exigencies increased government control, imposing monetary expansion.
