Sentences with phrase «new urgency»

His findings take on new urgency in the light of current controversies.

Some recommendations have been incorporated in the administration's energy bill, which has taken on new urgency since the nation suffered its biggest blackout this month.

All those legal threats are giving new urgency to the patent reform debate.

The Italian crisis is adding new urgency to the completion of fiscal and banking unions.

So the question of how he or she would confront official corruption has acquired new urgency.

Lately, external pressures give the question new urgency.

The sudden death of two close friends has added new urgency and perspective.

Confronted by profound threats to the wellbeing of the world, the issue of how to relate present and future take on new urgency for us.

The proposal would accelerate a debate that Congress has been reluctant to have, but that's taking on new urgency after President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on Syria.

Puzzling over the where and when of the story, we ask with new urgency of our own present, what time is it — if there is time?

Puerto Rican politicians holding office on the mainland United States, especially those in New York, have long felt compelled to look after the territory, but the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria has brought new urgency to their efforts.

Building on the legacies of modernism in the early 20th Century, artists found new urgency for their abstract impulses, whether in the form of existential gestures, the rationalizing order of geometry, or the potential of new materials and processes.

It's a question that took on new urgency when Smartflash turned around two days later and sued Apple again, this time for infringement of four new patents.

While this view has been disputed by advocates of passive investing, it has taken on new urgency as passive steamrolls over active in popularity.

Medicine and biology alter the boundaries and genetic constitutions of life, thereby injecting new urgency into debates about the integrity of nature and human nature.

These signs of weakness in a man who has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for 35 years have injected new urgency into factional battles led by the elite within his ruling ZANU - PF party.

The governor reportedly now believes that a GOP - controlled Senate is no longer a handy foil, but rather an impediment to achieving aspects of his progressive agenda — particularly additional ethics reforms, which have taken on new urgency thanks to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's most recent public corruption case that reaches into Cuomo's own inner circle.

«A longer renewal would be better for everyone, and we're hopeful that Mayor de Blasio will show new urgency this year to improve schools so he can restore the legislature's confidence in his management,» the group's executive director, Jenny Sedlis, said in an email.

Divestment is an old request, but one that's gained new urgency in the wake of Trump's decision to leave the 190 - nation Paris deal, joining Syria and Nicaragua as the world's only non-signatories to the deal.

«A long, hot view: Climate change likely to extend across next 10,000 years: New long - term scenarios lend new urgency to fast - tracking carbon curbs.»

The find puts new urgency on keeping arsenic out of expectant mothers» drinking water.

remains critically important, and takes on new urgency in today's technologically mediated societies.

It's an Emergency and a Business Opportunity «This report gives new urgency to establishing ambitious, formal and regulated processes for collecting and managing e-waste via the setting up of large, efficient facilities in China,» says UN Under - Secretary - General Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP.

Building on the legacies of modernism in the early 20th century, artists — in a period marked by recent trauma, migration, and reconstruction — found new urgency for their abstract impulses, whether in the form of existential gestures, the rationalizing order of geometry, or the disruptive potential of new materials and processes.

In the House, the trade - offs took on new urgency after Congress's nonpartisan tax accountant found that changes made to the bill since its introduction mean it would add $ 1.57 trillion to the deficit over a decade.

In today's contentious climate, LA artists are responding with new urgency, seeking to tell their truth in an era when truth is becoming a precious commodity.

However, the two studies present some strongly contrasting evidence about how Greenland's ice sheet may have responded to past climate change — bringing new urgency to the need to understand if and how the giant ice sheet might dramatically accelerate its melt - off in the near future.

Last week's failure of a massive tobacco - settlement bill in the Senate added new urgency to efforts by the Clinton administration and education lobbyists to find money to pay for class - size reductions and other programs with funding contingent on new cigarette taxes.

Sergeant Daniel Morgan's participation in a military mapping expedition of uncharted territory in the Louisiana Purchase takes on new urgency when he promises to protect the Indian wife of a dying French trapper.

When schools formally measure and publicize their weaknesses, addressing problem areas acquires new urgency.

Money expert Clark Howard constantly warns about the dangers of identity theft, a call that has taken on new urgency in light of the Equifax data breach.

As pipeline politics came to dominate the North American energy debate, uncertainty over TransCanada's Keystone XL project gave new urgency to other efforts to expand Canada's oil market, including Enbridge's Northern Gateway project.

What was different in its message was the new urgency of the timing, made clear in the minutes from its last meeting and in the comments from Fed officials.

Discussions among President Donald Trump's economic advisers over promised tax cuts for corporations and individuals have taken on new urgency.

The succession question seems to be taking on new urgency after three sources say Ailes threatened to quit this summer when Murdoch elevated his sons, Lachlan and James, to take over the media empire.

The potential outcomes of the lawsuit and legal wrangling took on new urgency this week after reports that Mr. Cohen had won an emergency temporary restraining order from an arbitrator, barring Ms. Clifford from speaking out now, a measure that Ms. Clifford's lawyer, Michael J. Avenatti, declared invalid.

But this year's speech comes as the issue of gun violence takes on new urgency after one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

Sen. Mary Landrieu, chair of the U.S. Senate energy committee, with Sen. Joe Manchin, a member of the committee, speak to reporters about the new urgency to get congressional approval for the Canada - to - Texas Keystone XL pipeline in Washington on Nov. 12.

There's a new urgency in our hearts; a new spring in our steps.

In this time of unexpected political change, questions concerning the future of our political order, the responsibility of individual citizens of faith, and challenges of integrating our political and religious commitments have taken on a new urgency.

The conflict took on new urgency in 2016, with a wave of state - level religious freedom and antidiscrimination bills amid the ongoing fallout from the US Supreme Court decision legalizing same - sex marriage.

The origins of the image are disputed, but whatever its origins, depictions of the lactating Virgin acquired new meaning and new urgency in mid-14th-century Tuscany.

This is why Christ's words have taken on a new urgency in our time.

These crises give the present interest in simplicity a new urgency, Robin believes.

The role of imagination in religious thought and experience therefore takes on new urgency.

The emergence of Nazism gave a new urgency to Barth's attack on all philosophical and anthropological starting points for theology.

It is clear that thequestion of a possible acquiescence to the primacy of Peter in some modified form is engaging the minds of many non-Catholic theologians with a new urgency at the start of the new millennium as they contemplate the Roman question.

This evangelistic calling has a new urgency today.

As the 2016 election cycle gears up, the longstanding issues of inequality, racial justice, and police brutality take on a new urgency.