pressing order

The most pressing order of business, a commission report on widespread student disruption and violence, is due within two weeks.

I assume you have no pressing orders requiring your return to Germany?"

His eyes were blind, unseeing, as all his efforts went into pressing order against chaos, against the power from the depths.

On that particular morning, since she had no pressing orders, Cullyn wandered down to the gates of the dun and stood chatting with the guards.

- The shore end is laid, as you may have seen, and we are all under pressing orders to march, so we start from London to-night at 5.10.

With the Rand School firmly in the grasp of the WPA's hated rivals, the need for a new party training school was seen as a pressing order of the day.

Not until 10 June does Pepys understand that the Thames is the target: "News brought us that, the Dutch are come up as high as the Nore; and more pressing orders for fireships."

He sent that thought to Ayrlyn, pressing order upon her, and received a similar feeling in return, except Ayrlyn was not Ayrlyn, but an intertwined pillar of order and chaos, warm, yet cool.

Nylan groaned, knives flashing through his skull, pressing order against chaos, chivying the energies upward, ignoring the nearness of the chaos, ignoring the shivering of the ground, and the fireballs that continued to fall across the field.

Mr. Ritchie told the group that Schneider was planning to move 55 empty trucks to the Upper Midwest from Memphis and 10 more from Indianapolis to satisfy some of the most pressing orders - a huge expense caused by the lost revenue of moving the trucks empty.