In 1975, the Church Committee went on record with the finding that Allen Dulles had ordered Lumumba's assassination as "an urgent and prime objective".

A year ago we stated that a return to an acceptable level of profitability was our major and urgent objective.

My immediate and urgent objective was Madison Avenue for a coke-and-lime, but I went a block north to Seventieth Street.

One of the Trust's most urgent objectives has been to persuade the Maasai to stop killing the lions that prey on their cattle.

But President Bush could take those into account and still set the objective - the urgent objective - of forging new economic relationships.

Stability protects the most humble and the Stability Pact is an urgent objective, but there can be no stability without growth.

The most urgent objective is clearly to ensure maximum protection for the civilian population.

Growth and job creation are particularly urgent objectives.

I wholeheartedly support, then, the urgent objectives laid down in the Millennium Development Goals.

The most urgent objective for all three nations should be to convince North Korea to not test its long-range missile again.