exigence


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Synonyms for exigence

the condition of being in need of immediate assistance

a condition in which something necessary or desirable is required or wanted

something asked for or needed

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One: relying on what I called the local exigence, what you describe as an occasion or imperfection requiring response, all writing assessment is local.
Cette manifestation de haute exigence artistique sera en meme temps un evenement populaire.
These important philosophical relationships will be examined through the Marcellian themes of ontological exigence, intersubjective being, and secondary reflection.
From political scientist Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Emory professor and author of Mobilizing Islam, comes The Muslim Brotherhood, a project of renewed international exigence. The book traces the Muslim Brotherhood from its early origins as a marginalized, countercultural revivalist organization through its emergence as major political player during Egypt's Arab Spring.
Les critiques de Delphine Batho sur le budget 2014 ont ete claires et repetees, Francois Hollande avait clairement affirme son exigence de coherence", a-t-il dit a Reuters.
Khartoum 10 Juin (SUNA)- Le ministre d'Etat a l'Investissement, Dr Assadiq Mohammad Hasab Al Rasoul a dit que la decision sur la suspension de l'exportation du petrole du Sud-Soudan a travers le territoire soudanais a un effet positif sur l'environnement de l'investissement au pays, affirmant que l'assurance de la securite au Soudan est une exigence principale du succes de tout projet d'investissement au pays.
The paper is theoretically based on the concept of "postindustrial" (information) society (Bell, 1973) where the importance of education is emphasized and caused by changes in the structure of employment rate, growing intellectual labor exigence as well as higher unemployment rate of individuals of the lowest educational category.
Her previous experience includes work as both an inpatient and outpatient physician assistant with the Buffalo Medical Group and the Exigence Group.
Prior to joining ABC-Amega, Szwed served as Contract Manager with Exigence LLC, a national medical group located in Williamsville, New York.
The theorist Lloyd Bitzer used the term "exigence" to describe what emerges whenever some urgent situation needs rhetoric to put out the fire.
proposes that the larger rhetorical situation or "exigence" (24) that engendered Hebrews was likely apologetic in motivation rather than polemical.
He thus affirms it as the most 'Christian' of Giono's novels, with the clear proviso that the 'exigence ethique' (p.
La promotion conjointe de la langue arabe en France, comme dans le rE[umlaut]seau des E[umlaut]tablissements scolaires franE*ais Ea l'E[umlaut]tranger, relE ve de cette exigence.FRANCOPHONIE :Promouvoir le franE*ais