An
"urgent problem" is a situation or issue that needs immediate attention or action to solve it quickly.
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When we say that the
most urgent problem of our time is the spiritual problem we are opposing directly the popular opinion.
These findings are of considerable significance in the wider education debate about what works best in schools for improving pupil performance - especially in countries that face
urgent problems in basic literacy.
Living corals at risk are
urgent problems for scientists struggling to cope with our growing coral reef conservation problems.
He believes that we should be somewhat concerned about our carbon footprint, but that it is not as
urgent a problem as people think.
But of course, there are many
other urgent problems — we've talked about terrorism, of course, as one example — and other priorities that will have to be addressed.
And I think there's a lot of people inside and outside of the system that think we have a
really urgent problem.
Learning how to optimize these spaces is an
increasingly urgent problem: As of 2008, the urban environment has become simply «the environment» for the majority of the world's population.
In 10 - minute slots, the presenters
exposed urgent problems that persists in education today and proposed policy recommendations that were bold, yet firmly rooted in sound empirical evidence.
For these reasons I do not believe that the idea of colleges that order themselves to responding to the world's
most urgent problems is simply a fantasy.
Chances are, your highly qualified «no show» sales leads are dealing
with urgent problems, and unfortunately, in the grand scheme of things, you are probably not as important to the prospect as the prospect is to you.
«First of all, our official planning departments seem to be brain - dead in the sense that we can not depend on them in any way, shape or form for providing intellectual leadership in
addressing urgent problems involving the physical future of the city.»
I'm excited to partner with Michelin in support of Breaking Ground, one of the city's top non-profits who are on the ground every day working to solve this
incredibly urgent problem,» said Chef Günter Seeger.
Armed with powerful new technologies and massive amounts of data readily available in electronic form, Youth Sports of the Americas and Game Changer Tec will jointly
tackle urgent problems not possible 5 years ago.
Specifically, most
urgent problems such as resource depletion, environmental pollution, over-population, deforestation, the Greenhouse Effect, unchecked militarism, and rampant nuclear proliferation are studied to provide our students with a better understanding of the complexity of these interrelated issues.
«This effort is just one example of how usable knowledge emerges when researchers
take urgent problems of practice seriously.»
«Bringing the regularities of schooling to consciousness
around urgent problems of improving instructional practice is a key part of the process of improvement.
Yet despite these massive and
urgent problems affecting the lives of one million students, there has only been ONE BILL submitted in the Washington state legislature that would generate the billions of dollars needed to actually reduce class sizes down to the national average and provide our students with the safe schools they deserve.
This really is the problem: Mr. IAT is once again rebunking the denialist meme that AGW can't be a
globally urgent problem if climate scientists don't voluntarily internalize the marginal climate - change cost of their private fossil carbon emissions.
Population growth is a factor, but the largest plausible changes in population expected this century make little difference to the total; we have two far more
urgent problems reflected in these numbers:
e360: More than 190 countries is an unwieldy structure for a
very urgent problem for which we do not have a lot of time.
I would attend to their acute problem or the most important problem on their list of complaints and ask that they see me again for management of non-acute and
less urgent problems.
Though the government in general seems competent and David Cameron is getting to grips
with urgent problems, it is hard for them to tell how they are doing week by week — the Prime Minister is not like a football manager, as one focus group participant put it.
The scientific results obtained from FiBL's research are aimed at helping practitioners to
solve urgent problems.
Release Year: 2013 / Directed by Peter Navarro DEATH BY CHINA is a documentary feature that pointedly confronts the most
urgent problem facing America today — its increasingly destructive economic trade relationship with a rapidly rising China.
These sorts of problems have led Charles Moore, an oceanographer and racing boat captain who played a significant role in discovering and publicizing the great Pacific Garbage Patch, to argue that plastic pollution has become a more
urgent problem for ocean life than climate change.
Workgroups 8 (Ethics in Science, Industrial Science & Technology, Integration and Collaboration in European Science, Public Awareness of Science, Science Policy, Science and
Urgent Problems of Society, Technology Transfer, Young Scientists)
From best - selling author and filmmaker, Peter Navarro, comes DEATH BY CHINA, a documentary feature that pointedly confronts the
most urgent problem facing America today — its increasingly destructive economic trade relationship with a rapidly rising China.
Henry said one of the more
urgent problems in the district, especially in East New York, is gun violence and public safety.
Was it addressing more
urgent problems, maybe?
From bulletproofing technology that can be applied to backpacks or desks, to connecting survivors and organizing transportation, these startups are trying to solve some of the nation's most
urgent problems.
If a customer's health is low in that period, you will likely lose them, so it's
an urgent problem that the customer success team needs to fix.
Everyone likes to feel needed, and few things make people feel as needed and important as interrupting a meeting or conversation to deal with
an urgent problem only they can solve.
«We think this is
an urgent problem.
Yesterday, three Fortune 50 leaders — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan — made an important declaration: Healthcare is one of the most
urgent problems facing American employers today, and it's time for fresh, technology - driven solutions to solve it.
Church leader and theologian Steve Holmes wrote: «I agree profoundly with Steve in his concern that our pastoral practice in this area has often been appalling, and needs to change... his diagnosis of a real and
urgent problem is spot on... [He] names a pastoral scandal that we have swept under the carpet for too long.»