Pressingly

So plainly, so pressingly, is the case laid before us, that we shall be for ever inexcusable if we perish in our folly. ❋ Unknown (1721)

We are not satisfied with the slowness with which the buildings have been conducted the last year, and particularly with respect to the Library, and the Anatomical theatre. these ought to have been done before this, the books remaining packed so long in their boxes it may be feared are at this time, in a progressing course injury, in addn to the loss of their use to the Professors & Students. a greater force of workmen ought to have been employed, and it is now requested that all which can be employed be immediately put into action first for the completion of the Library room & Shelves, and next the Anatomical building. the transportn of the Capitels too call pressingly for exertion. ❋ Unknown (1826)

More pressingly, Cain said that the speech was filled with "class warfare ... picking winners and losers" and "attacks on businesses and Congress." ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2012)

When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. ❋ David Bromwich (2011)

More pressingly, Cook iterated Verizon's desire to get the iPhone out to eager customers as soon as possible. ❋ Amy Lee (2011)

And, most pressingly at the moment, what are the similarities and differences between Pakistan and Egypt? ❋ Ethan Casey (2011)

Translated into scientific research, the overall goal of the campaign then becomes most pressingly to map Mars for methane and water, and to see where they coincide. ❋ Marc Kaufman (2011)

Not, perhaps, with pressingly practical questions about the inevitable recourse to crime after people's livelihooods are entirely cut off. ❋ Unknown (2011)

More pressingly, it demonstrates a dangerous trend to subvert speech in an otherwise thriving democracy. ❋ Salil Tripathi (2011)

My impression was that the reason you went to the expense of installing lightning rods on skyscrapers, or on your house for that matter—Mr. Cooper also does a lot of high-end homes in the Hamptons—wasn't just to attract lightning and render it harmless, but also to distract it from other more vulnerable and precious objects, such as children and pets, and perhaps most pressingly yourself, if you happen to be standing outdoors. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

These were always males, and they were pressingly insistent on joining with One Eye and his mate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

More pressingly, the government has to be willing to find a political solution for the ethnic groups. ❋ Benedict Rogers (2012)

Early in the 1990s as my parents were pressingly approached to sell the estate, I went back to the Bekaa, leaving my green card behind at JFK not to be tempted to take a U-Turn back to the US and evacuated the squatters from our estate... ❋ Brad Haskel (2011)

In this follow-up, director Phil Grabsky follows Mir as he approaches adulthood, with dreams of becoming a teacher but, more pressingly, of surviving the fighting in his country. ❋ Unknown (2011)

More pressingly, they do nothing to steer India's ship of state in the direction of economic reforms. ❋ Unknown (2011)