Sentences with phrase «more urgent thing»

But by far the more urgent thing to do is to start rapidly deploying the powerful, mature zero - emission technologies that we already have, as rapidly as possible.

«My staff urged me to respond now because they thought it was a much more urgent thing than I did in the moment.»

Not exact matches

Since Aristotle and Whitehead are at one in distancing themselves critically from entity understood as substrate, since they both have in mind the existence of a «self» as the decisive characteristic of entity, and since moreover they both turn in the direction of organic unities and not of «things,» it becomes all the more urgent to ask just how the Whiteheadian concept of an «actual entity» is related to the Aristotelian concept of «entity.»

There are so many things that have to be done — and done right away — in business, at home, in all sorts of personal affairs that these seem much more urgent than intangible spiritual matters.

What I like least about being a mom: The toughest thing about being a mum is the lack of time — the feeling that everything is left half done because some more urgent need has presented itself.

It's not that Corbyn has suddenly decided an unelected House of Lords is just fine; more that he (and his allies, such as Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell) believe other things are more urgent.

However they have also shown the same thing about non-religious beliefs such as Humanism, the teaching of which stands in more urgent need of well - funded academic research by virtue of their more recent arrival on the curriculum.»

«One of the things that is very urgent for us to do is a dose de-escalation study so that we can see what the minimum amount of antibody is so maybe with the same amount of material we could do more,» he said.

The enjoyable thing about Insurgent was that the action was urgent and inventive, but the set pieces here feel more trite and way less entertaining.

Each to their own, but «Happy - Go - Lucky» has nagged away at me for over six months now — there's something urgent and devastatingly sad about its storytelling to me that resonates more than most of the things I've seen this year.

However, this latest seems to borrow more from the unrelated universes of their films A Serious Man (2009) and Burn After Reading (2008) in that it alternates tone by focusing first on one man's attempt to make sense of things, and then with a near slapstick approach to «urgent» situations.

Lots of people say the secret is to create a sense of urgency, but things couldn't be much more urgent than your impending death, and that alone is clearly not enough.

Now, this thing gives new meaning to «urgent» thanks to 435 horsepower and, more importantly, 664 lb. - ft.

De Kooning moved to a more lyrical form of painting, (such as Villa Borghese, 1961), that lacks the urgent, anxious connection to the world of his earlier Women paintings (no bad thing, depending on your view of these violent images, often described as misogynist).

The changing focus from urgent mitigation, an excuse to raise the price of energy by a factor of 5 - 10 or more, to adaptation and slower remediation approaches makes the whole thing useless to the socialist agenda, so they turn their attention to other excuses.

If all the bad things you guys are so convinced were going to happen were indeed going to happen all of a rush — say in a year or less — then maybe I;d be a bit more convinced that we need to take urgent, immediate and drastic action now.

Here's how this post is going to go: First, we'll have a quick look at why targeting 1.5 degrees is so urgent; second, we'll look at a few things these scenarios have in common, the baseline for serious ambition; third, we'll look more closely at the third paper, as it offers some interesting alternatives (like, oh, mass vegetarianism) to typical carbon thinking; and finally, I'll conclude.

But here's the thing: the challenge is urgent but today we've got the technology we need to ditch the dirty fossil fuels driving the crisis and the popular will to do it — all a whole lot easier and more affordably than ever before.

If you are, it could make things more urgent.

Instead, you're paying attention to things that are louder, more urgent, more essential, and frankly, easier.

Whether your business needs an urgent overhaul or can survive for a few years more, one thing is certain: It will need to change at some point.