In 2000, the U.S. Department of the Interior declared the black - tailed prairie dog «warranted» for listing as a threatened species, however the secretary was «precluded from actually listing the species by
more urgent concerns».
Att a Texas Tribune event in November, Joe Straus, the speaker of the Texas house of representatives, said he had other,
more urgent concerns than the bathroom bill.
WHAT»S
a more urgent concern in Albany: child hood obesity or public corruption?
Just because kids are learning about deforestation does not mean they should be out there planting trees if their efforts could be better applied addressing
a more urgent concern.
Not exact matches
As the Department of Transportation (DOT) says, «Almost any planeload of airline passengers includes some people with
urgent travel needs and others who may be
more concerned about the cost of their tickets than about getting to their destination on time.
Solid listening skills help you
more effectively serve clients, make sales and manage employees because you're picking up on and connecting to people's most
urgent concerns.
We conservatives know that the human issues involved in all of the above are
more urgent than global warming and related
concerns.
My chief
concern here is not to repristinate Luther's 16th - century work for the 21st century, but rather to appropriate it — fairly and responsibly — in order to respond
more faithfully to some of the
urgent problems facing our societies and our world.
For this and related reasons a certain Catholic preference has emerged for responding in a manner intellectually
more straightforward and culturally
more urgent, that is, for dialogue
concerning the dignity of the human person and its ethical implications.
So it beggars belief that at a time when there are
more than 80,000 empty homes in London alone, when
concerns about food supply and the need for agricultural security are becoming
more urgent, when our cities are at last beginning to revive thanks to densification strategies and the link between suburban sprawl and car dependency is so obvious, that politicians and think - tankers should begin to consider sacrificing the green belt for greedy house builders.
«I think the other
concern is, look, we're still going through a tough economic time and there are other expenses that are of a
more urgent or pressing need.»
Citing polls showing that the majority of the U.S. public does believe that climate change is taking place, Holdren said the real problem is that the issue isn't as
urgent as other
concerns that many people have: «We need to be
more in the business of persuading people this needs to be higher on their priority list.»
Windham Federation of Teachers President Randall Prose said: «We're
concerned about much
more than test scores, but these latest numbers provide an
urgent opportunity to ask some tough questions.
With so many electronics in play the steering feedback is a little dull, and the braking could feel
more urgent when plunging your foot flat to stop in a hurry, but the Mercedes - Benz E-Class wagon probably won't end up in race - like situations often enough for it to be a
concern.
But he is also conflicted about the possibility of having to monitor the occupied Palestinian territories, a
concern that grows deeper and
more urgent when he meets Nimreen and Laith - the twin daughter and son of his mother's friend.
If I'd taken that approach I know that I never would have continued to save due to
more urgent financial
concerns.
If you have a health
concern that is
more urgent in nature, don't wait for an answer on the blog.
But many of the
more urgent and solvable ones have already been resolved after almost 50 years of environmental
concern and the formation of environmental agencies at many levels of government.
Looking at the extreme climate - related events going on around the world right now — not to mention the likelihood that such events will become a lot
more extreme and a lot
more frequent if no
urgent measures are taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions — I can well understand Lucas's
concern to wake people up.
Risk of Sudden Catastrophic Warming This
concern stems directly from the possibility that the prospect of successful geoengineering would make emissions reductions seem less
urgent, allowing
more and
more carbon dioxide to build up in the atmosphere over the century ahead.
The need to limit global warming is
urgent, according to two experts from the Harvard Medical School and Duke University speaking for the nonprofit Civil Society Institute, who expressed their
concern earlier this month that droughts fueled by unchecked global warming would touch off
more wildfires and a rise in related public health problems.
There is no doubt, therefore, that the subject of adaptation in a «4 °C world» (here, we use this shorthand to refer to the world with a serious prospect of average global warming of 4 °C or
more) will become an increasingly
urgent concern.
Perhaps the
more urgent task is to focus on people who already grasp the problem, and get them to align their actions with their
concern.
Concerns about the appearance of corruption in American courts have grown
more urgent in recent years as spending on judicial races has exploded.
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots urges governments to heed an open letter signed by 126 founders and directors of
more than 100 robotics and artificial intelligence companies from 28 countries demanding
urgent action to address fully autonomous weapons
concerns.
Some sources informed us that Samsung has already released an
urgent software update to fix this
concern, but other sources argue that it just adds
more functionality to the Edge UI.