1.   This attitude gave further urgency to Left campaigns against the government who were seen as worse than the old-style Conservatives.

2.   But Monday he said the high school shooting in Littleton, Colo., had given urgency to the bill, and he hoped it would win swift support.

3.   Disappointing, then, that Sayles fails to give dramatic urgency to so many of these themes that he clearly understands.

4.   Drummond said several other U.K. water companies were bidding for the business, giving some urgency to closing the transaction.

5.   Given the urgency of the case, getting to a unanimous, or near-unanimous, opinion might be too time-consuming.

6.   Nonetheless, the real possibility that Kabul will fall within weeks gave new urgency to discussions on various ways to establish order and security in the city.

7.   The concern has given urgency to the new inspection program created last month by the Security Council.

8.   The economic cost from loss of production is giving new urgency to efforts to overhaul electric regulations.

9.   The impending retirement years of the baby boom generation are giving increasing urgency to efforts to deal with the looming financial problems of the Social Security and Medicare programs.

10.   The NRDC report gives urgency to her deliberations.