The one urgent question, then, is that of the artistic use and abuse of suicide.
The reform of the latter, which is now in progress, is probably as urgent a need of the middle, as industrial insurance is of the working class.
The problems of industry were more urgentthan ever.
It was not enough to relieve the distress of that miserable land, but it attacked one of its most urgent problems in the right way.
Yet I sympathize with the urgent impulse to be present ourselves, and in the conflict of impulses, both of them so vague yet both of them noble, I know not how to decide.
An urgent wondering and questioning is set up, a poring theoretic activity, and in the desperate effort to get into right relations with the matter, the sufferer is often led to what becomes for him a satisfying religious solution.
The more urgent the required change, the more intemperate is the vehemence of its promoters.
Expressing as they do the ideas of the educated community, the requirements of these training colleges, even in the absence of other evidence, would imply a prevailing tendency to an unduly urgent system of culture.
Not only is it unwise to set up a high standard of good conduct for children, but it is even unwise to use very urgent incitements to good conduct.
In misery's haunts, thy friend thy bounties seize, And give anurgent life some days of ease; Ah!
One in the most pathetic terms recommends to her majesty's protection a beloved wife; another a destitute sister; but not among the least urgent of their supplications, was one that their creditors might not be injured by their untimely end.
De l'Etang, who had done this not out of malice, but from urgent necessity to illustrate his principles, seemed very sorry, and was desirous of appeasing the angried translator.
To satisfy the urgent curiosity of the literati, these annotations on Tasso by Galileo were published in 1793.
The Dutch now resolved not to be present; declaring they had just received an urgent invitation, from the Earl of Exeter, to dine at Wimbledon.
The most urgent needs of the Island, when it was turned over to our Government, were those briefly discussed in this review of the economic conditions of Cuba.
Now that we have pointed out the measures we consider most urgent to re-establish the industry of the tobacco provinces, we will mention what we consider necessary for the protection of the Vuelta Abajo tobacco leaf.
And then Henry and Robert Foster received a most urgent letter from their sister requesting their immediate presence at home.
Arriving at his office a little later than usual one morning, Hewitt found an urgent message awaiting him from the General Guarantee Society, requesting his attention to a robbery which had taken place on the previous day.
After a long hesitation, permission was given me niggardly to leave Tripoli, and my ship's boatmen pointed out the urgent need to supply a certain rowboat in the bay with that morsel of paper.
He longed to return confidence with confidence, to tell what wasurgent in his heart.
At the urgent request of Mistress Von Duyk I wrote to him, saying that his attentions were unpleasing to her, and that they must be discontinued, or that she could no longer visit at Dame Vanloct's where she usually had met him.
I defended him by saying that he ought to have considered Palmerston's situation--just come into office, encumbered with business, occupied with questions of much more urgent importance in the House of Commons.
At the same time the anxiety of the King to gain time, and his urgent recommendations to Miraflores to have patience, may have misled Palmerston and made him think there was no danger.
He had no thoughts of doing anything; he knew of nothing urgent that had occurred, and the truth is, il n'y pensait pas.
On the next day, Saturday, still more urgent demands were made, and still more alarming representations arrived.
Hospitably they accompanied us a short way till we reached the boundaries of the Church of England mission, whose territory they would not pass, except on urgent business, to the Government station.
At this stage of my journey, Mr. Sharp, to my great regret, was forced by the ties of urgentbusiness to return home.
In the afternoon, at the urgent request of many hungry Dinkas, I sallied forth and slew a good bull elephant.
He lets the barn go hang, and sends a messenger to the foreman with an urgent note to send back the engine at once to the house and rick.
It was not far short of four o'clock when Ney received that first urgent dispatch from Napoleon which told him to despatch the enemy's resistance at Quatre Bras, and then to come over eastward to Ligny and help against the Prussians.
People who had no urgent occasion to be abroad, drew closer to their comfortable fire-sides, and wished the dreary month of November was over.
But no sooner had the marriage become known, than the Pope, moved by the scandal it created, no less than by the urgent instance of the Orsini and Medici, declared it void.
The most immediately urgent was the termination of the schism, and the appointment of one Pope, who should represent the mediaeval idea of ecclesiastical face to face with imperial unity.
These offenses, coinciding with urgent remonstrances from the Papal Curia, gave the Venetian Government fair pretext for expelling him from their dominions.
During the last two weeks of her illness I was notified by telegram that the case was urgent and I was urged to hasten to my wife’s bedside.
Naturally, it was impossible to attend to more than the most urgent needs of anyone.
However profitable orurgent the business may have been, the moment the time drew near, when it was necessary to prepare for the Sabbath or solemn festivals, Moses Montefiore quitted his office, and nothing could ever induce him to remain.
In vain our adventurer requested half an hour for the despatch of some urgent business, in which he was engaged with a gentleman in the other parlour.
Then the day came when her no longer little girl came finally out of school, urgent and rebellious, kicking against the pricks, electrically alive and eager, autocrat and individualist rolled into one.
After all he had stopped himself from loving her at her urgent request, and their friendship was the best thing that he had ever known.
He said he was busy; but I told him he must come as it was on urgent business, and so it is.
Stephen had been recalled to South Africa on urgent business early in the autumn.
Mary, who had for many years dreamed of gracefully yielding to Jos's repeated and urgent entreaties, had even begun to wonder whether it would not be advisable if one of her men relations were to "speak to Jos.
I came to you last night because I had something urgent to say to you.
There were shelter-pits and dug-outs close by, and, without urgent need of their fire, the guns might be left while the gunners took cover till the storm was over.
An urgent call for rapid fire with an increasing range meant our infantry attacking; with a lessening range, their being attacked.
It was night, and an urgent summons went to call troops to the Emperor's aid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "urgent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
