What's the difference between exigent and urgent?

Exigent


Definition:

  • (a.) Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.
  • (n.) Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.
  • (n.) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was the exigencies of World War II that brought about the 1st, largescale systematic promotion of condoms to prevent venereal disease.
  • (2) Therein lies the mission--and the obligation--of the Catholic hospital, which must continue into the future whatever new forms of organization exigencies may dictate.
  • (3) By similar methods rational, exigent therapeutic measures are selected (Table 5).
  • (4) The method was tested against the reference method using suspensions of C. Oedematiens (species demanding strictly anaerobiosis conditions), C. histolyticum (somewhat less exigent) and C. perfringens spores (mean esigence), seeding on the surface of dishes with Willis-Hobbs medium.
  • (5) At least some of the features of the principal and accessory submandibular glands of the vampire bat may be structural adaptations to the exigencies posed by the exclusively sanguivorous diet of these animals and its attendant extremely high intake of sodium chloride.
  • (6) Given the exigencies of the politics surrounding the Middle East peace process, only a fool would predict an outcome, not least with some diplomats in Washington assessing only a 10% chance of agreement on a framework document even by the April deadline.
  • (7) As long as government is allowed to collect all internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
  • (8) In addition to indicating that negative life situation exigencies, such as poor health and low income are related to lower well-being, the results tentatively indicate that these exigencies create a greater vulnerability to the impact of other negative conditions.
  • (9) Homosexual behavior among heterosexual women is discussed in terms of responses to different kinds of situational exigencies and the rationalizations used to deal with the experience while insulating the heterosexual self-identification.
  • (10) The exigencies of a disease-oriented strategy which requires a blend of therapeutic modalities many times require a modification of what would be an ideal modality-oriented strategy geared solely to effectively testing a new agent.
  • (11) The increasing frequency of chronic cholecystitis makes necessary a more minute diagnosis and exigent surgical indication, pledges for long-term favourable results.
  • (12) In contemporary psychiatry, neurobiological emphases and the exigencies of positivistic research have tended to standardize the picture of schizophrenia.
  • (13) Chris Mullin's most exigent friends would have relished its black comedy at a memorial service and then fallen, thanks to the Man Booker, upon an extraordinary saga that has yet to be promoted by Richard and Judy, the Grazia book club and Channel 4's TV Book Club .
  • (14) Long-run considerations, not short-run financial exigencies, should determine which activities occur in the private sector.
  • (15) New exigencies require new policies, and it's time to break with the past.
  • (16) Vertebrate egg envelopes, then, are basically similar; the modifications, including the addition of shell membranes and shells in some groups, reflect adaptations to differing reproductive strategies and to the environmental exigencies with which the egg must cope.
  • (17) There are five universal exigencies of being human, against which a person's existence can be evaluated: pairbondage, troopbondage, abidance, ycleptance, and foredoomance.
  • (18) Although the exigency level was not detailed, around 42% of the clinical trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry are performed according to GCP.
  • (19) He explains these deficiencies in terms of the exigencies of interdisciplinary work and the affinity of much early bioethics with policy- or legislatively-oriented "public ethics".
  • (20) To meet the exigencies of coping with the onset of schizophrenia in the family, caregivers sought out an array of professional and nonprofessional supports.

Urgent


Definition:

  • (a.) Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This case demonstrates that the manifestations may be delayed and that urgent surgical intervention may be lifesaving despite the precarious status of these patients.
  • (2) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
  • (3) We are urgently investigating this incident with our supplier and ask customers to return this product to their local store."
  • (4) The patient presented urgently for Caesarean section, with fluid overload and worsening thrombocytopaenia.
  • (5) Their confidence in the practitioner's clinical judgment was greater in their care of nonurgent and urgent patients.
  • (6) The pope has written in his encyclical of the urgent need to reduce climate change gases.
  • (7) Zoellick was also clear that action was now urgently needed.
  • (8) The following year yet another Bank analyst wrote a report on BCCI entitled "Why action is now urgently required".
  • (9) And we owe [Hickox] better than that and all the people who do this work better than that.” The White House indicated that it was urgently reviewing the federal guidelines for returning healthcare workers, “recognising that these medical professionals’ selfless efforts to fight this disease on the front lines will be critical to bringing this epidemic under control, the only way to eliminate the risk of additional cases here at home”.
  • (10) The urgent endoscopy of the superior gastrointestinal haemorrhage carefully and quickly helps in clarifying the following questions: Is the patient going on bleeding?
  • (11) Close cooperation of ophthalmological departments with vitreoretinal centres and early performance of urgent surgery are the basic prerequisites of better functional results of PPV in EHE.
  • (12) "Ministers must urgently get behind a different approach to food and farming that delivers real sustainable solutions rather than peddling the snake oil that is GM ."
  • (13) Urinary frequency was normalized in 6 out of 16 (37.5%), urgency ceased in 6 out of 17 (35.7%) and urgent incontinence disappeared in 9 out of 14 (50%) patients.
  • (14) This issue should attract attention more urgently now in light of the deaths in Savar.
  • (15) Guide-wire fragments retained in the coronary artery system after PTCA are removed either immediately by means of catheter techniques or by urgent operation.
  • (16) Ownership is not the problem, affordable homes for people are what are urgently needed and will, it seems, need a new government.
  • (17) It is understood that counterterrorism police at Heathrow are urgently seeking a meeting with senior UKBA management over the missed alerts.
  • (18) Alongside investment in health campaigns to help people reduce their risk of cancer, the government urgently needs to take action to stop children starting smoking by introducing standardised packaging for cigarettes without delay”, he added.
  • (19) Four of the six related deaths and half the urgent operations occurred among 18 patients iwth colonic dilatation.
  • (20) The other two patients underwent urgent adrenalectomy and had postoperative improvement in their multiple organ system failure.