Pressing
Pressing adjective - Needing immediate attention.
Responsible and pressing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Responsible" instead an adjective "Pressing".
Responsible
Responsible adjective - Being the one who must meet an obligation or suffer the consequences for failing to do so.
Pressing and responsible are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pressing" instead an adjective "Responsible".
Both words in one sentence
- Figuring out who's responsible and actually catching them however, is a completely different matter, especially when there can be more pressing things to deal with, like Zombie Godzilla attacks.
Source: There Are No Police -
Darker and Edgier such stories may even play this straight, of those responsible for finally pressing the button considering everything up to ritual suicide, as a result of guilt.
Source: Nuke 'em - There's no talk of ever publicly acknowledging this stuff, because nobody knows how the Chinese will take it and the people responsible (and their children and grandchildren, who form today's Party Leadership) have no pressing desire to find out.
Source: Empire with a Dark Secret
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