Certainly, by the time the new government took office last month, the issue had taken on urgency.

Yet for many Americans with financial problems, the question of whether to file has taken on new urgency.

If anything, this task had taken on an added urgency.

In the meantime, the whole problem has taken on even greater urgency.

Some residents are trying to save it, and their work has taken on a new urgency.

Playground safety has taken on a new urgency this year.

So the need to bridge the language gap has taken on added urgency.

The impeachment procedures, however, have taken on a new urgency.

But the matter has also taken on new urgency since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Since 9/11 his work has taken on new urgency.