It became an exigency and very important to leave when the fire broke out. From LearnThat.org.
The health-care exigency. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But again, the question is not whether exigency was an important variable to the wartime Court: Of course it was. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: Who's to Blame?] Reference
I travel with a teeny tiny jackknife/scissors combo for just that kind of exigency, which I would like to have you know was CONFISCATED JUST TODAY AT CHICAGO O'HARE AIRPORT. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-25] Reference
Another short-term solution to postal woes may be to invoke the "exigency" clause in postal law that would permit an increase in postage above the rate of inflation because of. From Wordnik.com. [ImpeachBush] Reference
The time limit was extended as the exigency demanded. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699] Reference
Representatives, prepared a bill to meet this exigency. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Here was an exigency against which she had failed to provide. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
The army was entirely unprovided with any means of meeting this exigency. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
Constitution that such an exigency might arise, and provision was wisely made for it. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
We would use our powerful military only in the most extreme exigency, and reluctantly. From Wordnik.com. [Washington: A Dysfunctional Democracy] Reference
The exigency demanded the speedy disembarkation of the greatest possible number of men. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
Plans are adopted to meet the present exigency, and new ones are at any time engrafted. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Immediately after a battle, but too late for the exigency, there was an influx, then a lull. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
These matters of political exigency were undoubtedly beyond the comprehension of the Ylongos. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
A four-year hitch, he thought, was a wartime exigency that ended when the Korean conflict did. From Wordnik.com. [The Man And The Myth] Reference
And this was a moment of dire exigency, in which much had to be said in the most energetic manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
While these occurrences do not constitute an exigency calling for any positive proceeding either by the. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886] Reference
Men of experience, dignity, and conservatism, they voluntarily gave way before the press of public exigency. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
The captain looked out, applying an epithet to Mrs. Hargrave that only the exigency of the case could excuse. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
In the following graceful Alpine pastoral, the need of human help attaches to an exigency of life or death. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
It generates profound conflicts between principle and allegiance, between political exigency and adherence to ideals. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody To Take The Fall] Reference
Thus far, however, I am at liberty to observe, that to me they appeared sound, judicious, and suited to the exigency. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
Pacific Railroad, may be said to have passed the last four years in climbing to the level of the country's vital exigency. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
After all, it was invented by a journalist, as many of life's most preposterous notions are, under the exigency of deadline. From Wordnik.com. [Perfecto] Reference
Hence apparently the gradual evolution of a mass of incantations for use in every conceivable exigency or emergency of life. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
He adjured them to meet his exigency and that of other parents, by the consecration of one of their own number as a minister. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Amongst the tales of Mr Poe are several papers which, we suppose, in the exigency of language, we must denominate philosophical. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Still, it may mean this; but if it does not mean this, it means nothing pertinent to exigency, nothing patriotic, nothing loyal. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The wisdom of Congress, aided by the experience and the advice of the Executive, will no doubt be sufficient for the great exigency. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
But if these facilities are not at hand, we must meet the exigency as follows, so that the work may not be hindered by tedious delay. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
So much for the power of the public to exercise its supreme control, when public exigency requires, over Nature's gifts in land and water. From Wordnik.com. [Monopolies and the People] Reference
Whether in any given case the exigency is so great as to call for the assertion of this power, is a question which must be decided in each case separately. From Wordnik.com. [Monopolies and the People] Reference
There was a shift of speakers then, this time a private, still too rangy, but his looseness of frame seeming already to conform to the exigency of uniform. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
At the stockade gate Prix Laroux, swift of foot and strong as twenty men in the exigency of the moment, swept the women into his arms and rushed them within the post. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Splendor and abundance vied with each other, and the lights were so carefully arranged that I felt quite safe: the zeal of my servants met every exigency and merited all praise. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2] Reference
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