"Violence against women is not prosecuted because it is not a top government and urgent social priority.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

In Moscow,a member of the local Uzbek community, Sherzad Rakhmanov, cited the need for urgent outside help.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

Food is one of the most urgent needs in a humanitarian crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Gates said shorter range Iranian missiles are a more urgent concern.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Developing agriculture in Africa has become even more urgent since the United Nations warned in a report earlier this month that governments must increase investment in agriculture because a billion people around the world are going hungry in sub-Saharan Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

After an urgent meeting in Cairo, more than a dozen Arab health ministers agreed to prevent young and elderly Hajj candidates, as well as those with health problems, from traveling to Saudi Arabia for the annual event.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

Coinciding with the hearing, the State Department confirmed that the U.S.is providing urgent shipments of weapons and ammunition to Somalia's Transitional Federal Government,the TFG, to help it avoid a complete takeover by Islamist rebels the U.S.suspects has ties to al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

So this is a timely opportunity to remind the world how agricultural biodiversity can improve productivity and nutrition,enhance livelihoods, respond to environmental challenges and deliver food security, Last July,the G8 summit in L'Aquila,Italy, issued a statement saying, There is an urgent need for decisive action to free humankind from hunger and poverty.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29