noun
definition
The quality or condition of being urgent
example
the urgency of a demand
definition
Insistence, pressure
example
I have this sudden urgency to use the toilet.
Examples of urgency in a Sentence
There was urgency in his voice.
It managed to calm the sense of urgency he always felt.
He hung up, but there was urgency in his voice.
Urgency rose within him, along with anger.
Driven by the urgency to fight in any way she could, she pushed herself away from the wall and walked in search of Hilden.
She'd managed to avoid the sense of urgency and pressure Jonny no doubt wanted her to experience.
Gabriel met his gaze, and Rhyn ceased pacing. Sensing his urgency, Gabriel stood.
The urgency of foreign affairs, and subsequently internal strife at the council table, hindered Hastings from developing farther the system of civil administration, a task finally accomplished by Lord Cornwallis.
Urgency jarred her out of the memory, and she launched forward.
They were burdened by an abnormal urgency of desire and capacity for suffering, which no doubt took different phases in the man and the woman, but linked them together in a common susceptibility to ideal pain.'
It is a more obvious, if perhaps a more vulgar, criticism of the great development to say that it was too simply intellectual - seeking clear-cut definitions and dogmas without measuring the resources at the command of Christians or the urgency of their need for such things.
Neoplatonic philosophy had been in the main content either to formulate the contradiction or to deny the reality of one of the opposing terms. And traces of Neoplatonic influence, more especially as regards their doctrine of the unreality of the material and sensible world, are to be found everywhere in the Christian philosophers of Alexandria, preventing or impeding their formulation of the problem of freedom in its full scope and urgency.
In her urgency, she had climbed out without her purse, so she had no money or telephone, and her cell phone was in her purse.
For that reason, the need to raise the information ante has become a matter of urgency.
It may be an uneasy feeling or a sense of urgency about a hunch that's just different from other hunches.
His arms surrounded her in a warm gentle embrace that had no urgency.
Her voice assumed a tone of urgency.
In 1457 we first hear of the Council of the Fifty (re-established in 1502 and later known as the Sixty), and in 1526 of the Council of the Two Hundred (established in imitation of those of Bern and Fribourg), both being summoned in special cases of urgency.
Until 1811 the Calvinistic Methodists had no ministers ordained by themselves; their enormous growth in numbers and the scarcity of ministers to administer the Sacrament - only three in North Wales, two of whom had joined only at the dawn of the century - made the question of ordination a matter of urgency.
To the urgency of this peril the reformers were fully alive; and they sought its remedy in education.
She clamped her mouth closed, watching him check Selyn's vitals with the urgency and diligence of a man whose life depended upon the results.
Perhaps I'd left them this late on purpose, the imminent arrival of the new millenium adding a certain urgency to the ascents.
Understanding the climate system is a major research challenge given urgency by global warming.
The character's energy has to fight the urgency of the plot and the urgency of the plot makes the character more energetic.
To many environmentalists, it's a puzzle how anyone could doubt the urgency of checking human population growth.
In cases of urgency, preliminary injunctions may be obtained.
Now, to create a sense of urgency, Blunt brings news of the rebels.
This underlines the urgency of the need for effective advice and procedures for withdrawal.
The gathering was widely seen as a missed opportunity to inject the necessary urgency, fresh momentum and political will into the process.
The potentialities of aerial warfare and the extreme vulnerability of non-combatants to its attacks tend to emphasize the urgency of agreements of this nature.
The study was greeted as lending urgency to calls for reforms of the library service.
They could identify to the controller the perceived urgency of a call.
For any enquires please feel free to contact us, we will deal with your inquiry with the utmost urgency.
Studies support Prelief's efficiency in reducing bladder pain and urinary urgency when used in the diets of interstitial cystitis (IC) sufferers.
Legislation of the type discussed later is a matter of extreme urgency.
It can be frightening to yearn for a child, and it is hard to fathom the desperate urgency that comes with.. .
Was the matter put to the section 4 committees with sufficient urgency?
In any case the people are driven out by some adverse change; and when the urgency is great they may require to drive out in turn weaker people who occupy a desirable territory, thus propagating the wave of migration, the direction of which is guided by the forms of the land into inevitable channels.
Here he was influenced, as to biblical languages and textual criticism, by the learned and loyal-minded Abbe Paulin Martin, and as to a vivid consciousness of the true nature, gravity and urgency of the biblical problems and an Attic sense of form by the historical intuition and the mordant irony of Abbe Louis Duchesne.
That Calvin was actuated by personal spite and animosity against Servetus himself may be open to discussion; we have his own express declaration that, after Servetus was convicted, he used no urgency that he should be put to death, and at their last interview he told Servetus that he never had avenged private injuries, and assured him that if he would repent it would not be his fault if all the pious did not give him their hands.'
The speech he gave in September 1962, announcing that goal, spent a good amount of time justifying the expense and explaining the urgency.
In urgent cases over £ 250 contact must be made with the Accounts Receivable team, indicating the urgency required.
Do you see the urgency of the whole situation?
He tells you, that the matter with which he is charged, has all the urgency of a matter in hand.
Even scaling up best practice is unlikely to meet the urgency of the tasks.
Thus, the whole case for war - the urgency of the threat - falls apart.
Failure to recognize the urgency of repairs led to delays where prompt action would have saved money or prevented the problem getting worse.
Studies support Prelief 's efficiency in reducing bladder pain and urinary urgency when used in the diets of interstitial cystitis (IC) sufferers.
It can be frightening to yearn for a child, and it is hard to fathom the desperate urgency that comes with...
The final response will be agreed through urgency procedures.