pressing engagements

But for now, I have one or two pressing engagements.

I have no pressing engagements for the rest of the day.

What I did have were three months with no pressing engagements.

Or will they also all suddenly find they've got urgent pressing engagements too?

I am aware that you have a number of pressing engagements at home.'

We all had plenty of fuel and I had no pressing engagements for the next nine months.

"Unless you have pressing engagements," said Gail, "now is a salubrious time to go swimming."

Bahzell had something on his mind, and Kelthys had no pressing engagements.

'Well, we haven't exactly got any pressing engagements have we?'

No screaming babies, ringing phones, pressing engagements.

'You've got to go to coven meetings at full moon, no matter what other pressing engagements there may be.'

"Previous commitments, pressing engagements, and all that.

You have any other pressing engagements?'

He sandwiched in a fifteen-minute interview between two pressing engagements, and manifested both interest and approval.

Those without pressing engagements stopped at the holy Al-Kas Fountain and chatted.

"Well, I'm quite certain," Garak replied, "that I have no other immediately pressing engagements."

Money's for spending, hey-ho, Let's drink, death brings time enough for sleep, We have no pressing engagements to keep.

I have pressing engagements elsewhere.'

If the Governor, in fact, had more pressing engagements than greeting a schoolchildren's tour, Ms. Vartanian gives no hint.

(DE) I appreciate that Mr McCreevy has a tight schedule, but others have pressing engagements too.

Knowing that they both have pressing engagements I should like to pay particular thanks to Mr Moscovici and President Prodi for staying with us until the end of the debate.

The tramp to which he was addressing this tragic monologue would follow the direction of his eyes then make his exit, often at astonishing speed, with talk of 'pressing engagements' and 'business elsewhere'.

He checked the plane's wingspan to make sure it would fit in his basement, checked his calendar to make sure he had no pressing engagements for the next decade or so and started building.

There the lucky ones among us were allowed half-way up the steps before being halted and held in position for twenty minutes while, I assume, the stewardess disentangled herself from more pressing engagements and tidied herself in readiness.

He is a man of about fifty-five, with a quick 'nervous manner, as if he had pressing engagements elsewhere, which seems unlikely: the university has run out of steam and its faculty members are all jumping ship, if they can.