Across the western world that has to be a matter of urgent concern.

The effects of the eurozone crisis on public opinion across the continent make this an urgent concern.

Those urgent concerns can wait, and are likely to evaporate within days anyway.

There are dozens of more urgent concerns.

The two men addressed the most urgent concerns of the day as they shaved at their basins and mirrors each morning.

They are told to cap the number of samples taken at 250, despite the urgent demand to monitor frontline workers.

At the time there was an urgent demand for fresh supplies.

So quite quickly there arose an urgent demand for material.

Those who came decades ago in response to this country's urgent demand for labour must not be treated so shabbily.

As a result of this substantial discovery, there was an urgent demand for a community to provide support services for the mine and its workers.

This was described as a 'serious wake-up call' for urgent improvement.

The report stressed the need for urgent improvement of both public administration and the judicial system.

A score of two means 'improvement required', one denotes 'major improvement required' and zero means 'urgent improvement required'.

His committee has called for urgent improvements to ensure that patients are protected during a second wave.

In all, nine of the chains had restaurants rated zero - in need of 'urgent improvements'.

They will have a particular impact on patients with conditions - epilepsy, respiratory illnesses - that require urgent intervention.

Be assertive and insist on urgent intervention.

And researchers claim there are signs that death rates will continue to rise without 'urgent intervention'.

It 'recommends urgent intervention in the process to halt the demolitions and the violation of rights of the population evicted'.

There and then he told him that enough was enough and his parents were going to stage an urgent intervention.

Through the foundation he established he aimed to hasten spiritual progress, believing it to be the most urgent issue facing humanity.

For example, they are confronting the urgent issue of climate change where nations have failed to co-operate.

I was repeatedly struck with how the person preaching was talking as though their subject matter was the most urgent issue on the planet.

We still have no say in the most talked about and urgent issue that concerns us most.

The urgent issue must take second place to the more important strategic considerations, which are also far from straightforward.

Campaigners argued that the admissions demonstrated why urgent reform of food labelling was needed.

All political parties need urgent reform and revival.

It addresses a number of libel rules that are in need of urgent reform.

However, anti-vivisection campaigners feel the requirements of the code are inadequate and in need of urgent reform.

However, it has struggled to stick to its budget, and health chiefs said that it needed urgent reform to become sustainable.

Without a planned and urgent response we will only make matters worse economically, in terms of public health and even in relation to public order.

And with that recognition has come an understanding of the need for a firm and urgent response.

One of the letters required an urgent response but, as we missed it, we had to pay £450, which we could have avoided if we'd received the original letter.

Last month pressure from others and seemingly urgent situations cornered you into making commitments you felt ill-prepared for.

Enough that you realise this cycle of reflection was long overdue, and as those more urgent situations are dealt with, you turn your attention to other, less pressing ones.

This example can be extended to even more urgent situations, such as a car crash or natural disaster.

In urgent situations it may be unacceptable to wait hours for lab test results before blood products are given.

A doctrine was developed of having units in the field, particularly ships at sea, maintain radio silence except for urgent situations, such as reporting contact with enemy forces.

One in 50 adults has trichiasis and requires urgent surgery to prevent blindness.

He says patients who need to be admitted at night or have urgent surgery should be transferred to larger hospitals.

A significant proportion of those needed urgent surgery.

Sadly, the singer's gruelling tour schedule means he cannot get the urgent surgery he needs just yet.

She needed urgent surgery but, because of the tumour's frontal position, her family were warned she might not survive.

But there must be no more invasions of faraway countries that do not pose a clear, direct and urgent threat to our own territory.

But if we don't wake up to the urgent threat now facing humanity, soon we won't just be watching the nightmare but living it.

He added that this had distracted attention from more urgent threats to reefs such as agricultural pollution, overfishing and tourism.

We must make conservation the overriding priority, because our environment has plenty of more urgent threats than carbon.

I rushed down the corridor to rattle the doorknob's urgent warning.

It said that it did not receive any urgent warnings.

She cited a lack of 'preventative measures on the bridge, despite repeated, urgent warnings'.