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In a year of urgent needs, Lilly and its employees stepped forward with extraordinary efforts. To ease the suffering of hurricane and earthquake victims, we gave essential medicines, cash, and supplies. To ensure that seniors and low-income patients had affordable access to drugs, we offered six patient assistance programs. And to halt the spread of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, we partnered with the World Health Organizations and other groups to share expertise, improve treatment, and save lives.

In all four countries, it is clear that WFP will have to expand its existing operations to drought-affected populations in order to address the increasing needs. While final figures on the number of people in need of urgent assistance are still being established, donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.

I'm quite concerned that if I spend time in the office, someone will always find something for you to do. There's always a crisis that needs your urgent attention.

If she had some urgent business to take care of, we would, of course, understand,

In the 1980's or 1990's, university graduates were destined to have decent jobs, as they were in urgent demand after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), during which university education was suspended. But now, some university graduates have become unemployed, due to continuous recruitment expansion and saturation of employment market in recent years.

In order to keep the violence from escalating further, it is urgent to get the two parties to sit down together to discuss how to ensure that the ceasefire agreement is observed and how the peace process can be advanced.

I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.

In view of the compelling case for urgent action to reduce carbon emissions, we are concerned there may be a degree of institutional inertia within the Treasury in the face of the scientific evidence on climate change.

In the light of the fact that GM burned through $7bn in cash last year, it was clear additional urgent action was required.

In the past decade, Brazil has not grown very fast. It's urgent to create conditions for growth to accelerate.

In the past days I had to come to the toughest decision in my life, which was to follow my doctors' urgent advice to step down from my position as the leader of the Social Democrat Party in Germany.

Iran has removed the seals from a uranium enrichment plant and therefore urgent consultations are needed.

In my view, the great long-term challenges today, apart from the most urgent need to tackle climate change, is creating meaningful employment for young people.

Civilians are still being attacked and fleeing their villages even as we speak, many months after the government committed itself to bring the militias under control, ... It is urgent to take action now.

Climate change is the most urgent and serious challenge faced by the global community ? and we need leadership to adapt the global economy to deal with it, ... The Prime Minister?s move away from a target-based approach could have disastrous consequences.

...Before considering the question that is seemingly always the most immediate one and the only urgent one, What shall we do? we ponder this: How must we think? For thinking is genuine activity, genuine taking a hand, if to take a hand means to lend a hand to...the coming to presence of Being.

His experience and outstanding personal qualities make him ideally qualified to lead the U.N. in tackling the many urgent tasks which it currently faces,

But in order for it to happen there has to be an urgent change of direction to deliver the peace, democracy and other civil liberties that the people of Nepal want and need.

I feel I made them understand how upset we were and how urgent this was. We both felt we wanted to do something, rather than just sit here.

I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.

Gov. Riley's use of a state plane on his D.C. trip gives the public an urgent need to know just how their tax money is being used to assist in Riley's re-election.

Governor Riley's use of a state plane on his D.C. trip gives the public an urgent need to know just how their tax money is being used to assist in Riley's re-election.

Don't let the urgent get in the way of the important

Fear can give you urgent wings.

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

Truth has not such an urgent air.

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

The Home Office must get an urgent grip on this problem. They are failing in their principle responsibility to protect the citizens of this country.

the focus will be very largely on Japan and the urgent importance of Japan implementing effective measures to lead to a sustained, domestic, demand-led growth, which is critical not only for the Japanese people but for the people of Asia and, indeed, for recovery in the rest of the world.

The European Union and the European Commission... stand ready to help Pakistan with urgent relief and assistance in this hour of need.

The current challenges to international peace and security, including those related to nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear arms control, cannot be wished away. It is urgent and indispensable that we continue to build a global security system that is both equitable and inclusive.

The first thing they should do, clearly, is find out what their alternatives might be. What you do depends on how urgent it is that you make that particular trip on that particular day.

The city has updated its ongoing contingency plans to deal with the latest electricity blackouts and has taken urgent steps to safeguard residents. We will also install uninterrupted power supply devices to keep traffic lights working for more than six hours after a power failure at 200 of Cape Towns 1 260 intersections, which is expected to cost R8 million.

The developing countries have experienced a plenty of sufferings. People and children in these countries are in an urgent need of education, development and peace,

The day is short, the labor long, the workers are idle, and reward is great, and the Master is urgent

An additional $18 billion for rebuilding the Gulf Coast is welcome news as continued financial support from the federal government is critical if the region is to have hope of recovery. However, the details of the plan for spending these funds will reveal if the administration is committed to addressing the vast and urgent housing needs on the hurricane-devastated region.

All the guys felt like this was an urgent win for us.

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

Future additional tax breaks for the wealthy do not deserve a higher priority than strengthening education or covering prescription drugs under Medicare or protecting Social Security or meeting other urgent national priorities,

Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.

This is a matter which requires your urgent attention, but you have not resolved it as yet,

An urgent missive sent to Josephine""Home in three days. Don't wash.

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

I am proud that the Senate has come together to address the urgent need for comprehensive immigration reform.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

Do what is important, not what is urgent.