urgent challenge

collocation in English

meaningsofurgentandchallenge

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urgent
adjective
uk
/ˈɜː.dʒənt/us
/ˈɝː.dʒənt/
very important and needing ...
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challenge
noun
uk
/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/us
/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/
(the situation of being faced with) something that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a ...
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(Definition ofurgentandchallengefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofurgent challenge

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The need to restructure old-age provision systems has therefore become anurgentchallengefor the old member states.
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Talks to meet theurgentchallengeof arms control in space are in everyone's interest.
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I believe that the mosturgentchallengefacing this country today is to achieve a dramatic change in attitudes.
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We were facing a serious andurgentchallengeon a huge international scale.
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I raise this matter because it represents anurgentchallengeto the constitutional government of the country.
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That becomes a greater and moreurgentchallengewith enlargement.
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It is our greatest and mosturgentchallengeand one that can only be met with common policies and common determination.
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Safeguarding this diversity for the long-term future is an increasinglyurgentchallenge.
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The university heads must provide the leadership and support to mobilize internal and external resources so that their institutions respond to thisurgentchallenge.
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Only with the leveling of people to a plane of equality, in other words, would they embrace the common duty of helping the country meet its urgent challenges.
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Climate change, biodiversity, health and resource use will continue to be among our most urgent challenges for the future.
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Once again, we have two new urgent challenges to face this year.
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I believe that everyone feels that this is one of the greatest and most urgent challenges of the next five years.
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The society in which we live presents us with a number of urgent challenges.
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Let us not, motivated by the need to respond to urgent challenges, now create issues which could bring up more significant problems for us in the future.
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Europe is faced with demanding, clear and urgent challenges.
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The award was established in 1980 to honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today.
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