Sentences with phrase «less pressing matters»

While a handful of cases have been thrown out as a result of unreasonable delay, with others pending, and the Crown dropping less pressing matters to free up court time, the judicial system is still under the gun.

Some people have less pressing matters to attend to like vacations and luxury car purchases.

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On the other hand, as Harvard professor Robert Coles wrote in a famous essay addressing a crisis in the field of psychiatry, «I think our most pressing concern is less the matter of our work than the manner of ourselves.»

Nevertheless, the press either chose not to understand what the UNESCO debate was really all about or purposefully misled the public about the matter; either way, the U.S. news industry adopted a less than «balanced» approach to the issue in order to protect its own self - interest.

In today's intellectual climate, where so many who invoke science in support of Christianity seem to do so in more or less veiled forms of creationism (for example, in the «Intelligent Design» school of thought), and where the prevailing mindset is a complacent presumption that science has disproved religion, it is a matter of pressing urgency to proclaim from the housetops how the magnificent success of modern science points unambiguously to the existence of the supreme Mind of the Creator, and how the trajectory of thought which begins there leads convincingly to Jesus Christ as Lord of the Cosmos.

Weekends will assume a deeper meaning, and thoughts of summer holidays and World Cups in far flung lands, will fade hazily into the memory banks, perhaps retrieved and discussed at some later date, when other matters appear less pressing.

«What matters is getting results for people and I think the the public is very smart,» de Blasio said during a Thursday press conference in which NYPD officials announced there had been less shooting and murders this year than during this time last year.

6) Unload the bench press, and squat weights properly: DANGER DANGER This may be less a matter of etiquette and more a matter of safety, but make sure you unload a bench press or squat fairly evenly from both sides.

Sen. Al Franken's elicitation of her lack of understanding between growth and proficiency, her disdain for gun - free school zones (in front of a Newtown representative, no less), her view of sexual assault on campuses, her refusal to assure Sen. Tim Kaine that she would hold all schools that receive public funds — traditional, public charter, private, parochial — to the same standards of accountability: Shall we count the ways she equivocated on civil rights, equity, safety and basic comprehension of pressing educational matters?

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More and more are realizing that the old model of putting out a press release and waiting for a reporter to call has less and less value when they can communicate directly with the public about science that matters.

On those days, it is hard to concentrate on even trivial conversation, much less work, while my thoughts are drawn elsewhere to more pressing matters demanding my attention and draining my emotions.

As a policy matter, a DA may decide to not charge a person in case the victim is unwilling (though less so in cases of domestic violence), perhaps because of the widespread impression that the victim has to «press charges» (which indeed they would have to do in the case of private prosecution, which is no longer allowed in the US).

Erasing your scrawlings is a matter of pressing and holding the second function button, which is less intuitive than the Apple Pencil's dedicated eraser.