pressing issue
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpressingandissue
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pressing
adjective
uk/ˈpres.ɪŋ/us/ˈpres.ɪŋ/
urgent or needing to be dealt ...
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issue
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪʃ.uː/us/ˈɪʃ.uː/
a subject or problem that people are thinking and ...
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(Definition ofpressingandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpressing issue
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The latter is, of course, a particularlypressingissuewhich is given an expert, if fairly brief, policy review.
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Given that the exchange rate against the euro seems to be on a declining trend, this may now be a lesspressingissue.
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But the precise nature of the mostpressingissueat hand is usually far from clear.
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Since the early 1920s, the problem of registration had become apressingissuein the mission schools.
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It seems to me that local integration is currently a morepressingissue.
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I agree that this is an important andpressingissue.
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The practitioner described sending a client to a social worker after determining from her intake interview that herpressingissuewas substandard housing.
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In sum, the book provides up-to-date research on thepressingissueof the discourse functions of tense and aspect from a variety of perspectives.
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Anotherpressingissueis the matter of teenage pregnancies.
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Land expansion was apressingissueon the frontier then.
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There remains thepressingissueof whether their affective impairment should influence responsibility ascriptions.
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In fact, the relationship between religion and politics became apressingissueto theorists across the political spectrum.
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Proper implementation is therefore the mostpressingissue, especially in the current difficult economic crisis.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The mostpressingissueis undoubtedly the question of migration flows.
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But membership of the authorities at regional level is a mostpressingissue.
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There is a whole variety of reasons why mental health is becoming a more and morepressingissuefor society these days.
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Local authorities, at whose discretion such grants are awarded, should not direct their attention to what is on most judgments a lesspressingissue.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Perhaps the mostpressingissueof all is the need to improve provision for the training, retraining and upgrading of adults.
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Judging by the size of our mailbags, this is a mostpressingissue.
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