| Perhaps she isn't the only celebrity distracting the public's attention from the pressing issues at hand. |
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| I want to do things, but I get waylaid by other thoughts or more pressing issues. |
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| The finance ministers do not have any immediately pressing issues to discuss, unlike at some meetings in the past. |
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| One of the most pressing issues facing liberal democracies today is the politicization of ethnocultural diversity. |
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| Except this was not war, there were no other pressing issues that demanded his immediate attention so he could forget his pain. |
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| Nowadays, Congress desperately needs to turn its attention to the pressing issues of national security and the economy. |
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| The Government has been accused of targeting the drinks industry unfairly to divert public attention from more pressing issues. |
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| As in previous years, the Committee had acted as a catalyst to address the pressing issues of the day. |
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| Ultimately it is designed to cover up the social causes of crime, to divert attention from the pressing issues of unemployment, homelessness and related social ills. |
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| The issue of housing is one of the most pressing issues in the pecking order of living needs. |
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| Her subject is many-branched and full of pressing issues, not least, the status of housework itself. |
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| While many of these issues found their way onto state ballots, unnoticeably absent were the proposals concerning the more pressing issues of the day. |
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| In the grand scheme of things how important is this issue, given the more pressing issues that are affecting Canadians from coast to coast? |
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| The Tories are mocked for esoterically espousing a vision of society at a time when the most pressing issues are economic. |
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| Climate change and its interactions with other insecurities is one of the most pressing issues of our time. |
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| I do not think that Italy is able to tackle this problem, amid other pressing issues such as waste management, employment and housing. |
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| France also tends to have Brazil's ear on several pressing issues on the world agenda. |
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| The same preventive reasoning should also apply to one of the most pressing issues of our times: terrorism. |
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| The first is the execution of projects for the development of 'good practices' and to address pressing issues of critical importance. |
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| And finally, there are some pressing issues that I do need to raise with you. |
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| These bind the international community to tackling the most pressing issues facing developing countries. |
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| Climate change and the global recession are two of the most pressing issues facing the world today. |
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| Over the last five years, Caroline has eloquently addressed many of today's most pressing issues – from accelerating climate change to sustainable farming, from human rights to a just and sustainable economy. |
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| Ensuring that decisions reflect the needs and wants of the community requires an engaged and active citizenry who want to help create and participate in solution development for pressing issues. |
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| Designated by the Executive Committee, they bring concentrated attention to bear on pressing issues, and draw their membership from the vast pool of resources and information upon which the Commission can draw. |
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| The most pressing issues were the composition of the Commission and the weighting of Member States' votes upon qualified majority voting. |
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| One of the most pressing issues for those in the rock products industry was the growing incidence of silicosis. |
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| There are more pressing issues just ahead. |
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| Right now, there are more pressing issues. |
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| The harsh reality is that the activities of the General Assembly risk becoming a sideshow to the activities of other forums if we fall out of sync with the relevant and pressing issues of the day. |
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| Zameret also talks of an infuriation at the way the global leadership has failed to tackle the pressing issues of the day, from corporate greed and banking failure to problems like the environment. |
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| Italy's recent election was reported as a more-than-robust round of scurrilous character assassination rather than a sober tour of the pressing issues. |
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| I had an opportunity to discuss some pressing issues, such as the trade in softwood lumber we are currently debating, with a number of U. S. governors and congressmen. |
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| Faced with the urban guerrilla warfare which has reproduced the acts of violence perpetrated at the Nice and Gothenburg Summits, we must tackle two pressing issues. |
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| I am interested in hearing more about the pressing issues in his riding, as they are in my riding, when it comes to driving impaired and young people driving offensively. |
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| Communities participating in research place a high priority on access to research data that will allow them to address pressing issues through community-generated policies, programs and services. |
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| In the following pages, we set out pressing issues for consideration, and offer recommendations for action which, in our opinion, will result in positive changes to our multi-facetted system of scholarly communication. |
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| It is against this backdrop of under-funded and over burdened state institutions and weak bureaucracies that the prospective doubling of aid raises a number of pressing issues linked to matters of state-building. |
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| The Listening for Direction process is designed to identify the important and pressing issues in the management and organization of health service delivery that would benefit from an investment in research. |
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| With a number of studies on the current state of the Digital Repository landscape, it will also identify the most pressing issues for future developments. |
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| This bodes well for the quality of the debate in coming months, and may focus the political class's attention on the country's most pressing issues. |
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| Leadership Development: With a significant number of new commanders and other positions, we must continue to communicate clearly about current National and Division priorities, pressing issues and service delivery protocols. |
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