immediate problem

The king started to run after them, but hit an immediate problem.

First I'll think about the immediate problem, he told himself.

Never mind, he had the more immediate problem to consider.

But now he had other, more immediate problems to deal with.

The immediate problem for parents is what to tell them.

The immediate problem for the hotel is getting through the summer.

He decided it was better to change the subject to more immediate problems.

Let's just get right in and attack the immediate problem.

For the moment, his own immediate problem had more weight.

The government had more immediate problems coming at them out of the sky.

Important as such studies may be, they will not address the immediate problems of the small companies.

We don't allow it to deal with any but the most immediate problems of the moment.

Yet the children's immediate problem is Martin, not his mother.

He had more immediate problems to concern himself with this morning.

Right now, it seems to me, we have two immediate problems.

Paul said, quite willing to turn to the more immediate problem.

He also reported a more immediate problem: where to sleep.

Although the company has been spending about $250 million a year working capital should not be an immediate problem.

Time was short; she must take care of the immediate problems immediately, and figure out the rest later.

My most immediate problem was trying to get enough time to think over the division's problems.

But these were large issues, and the more immediate problem was where to start with the search for that poor, dead American boy.

He ran into an immediate problem: the best source wasn't talking.

"But what has it to do with my immediate problem?"

All the others, too, have more immediate problems that worry them every day.

"And what would you say is our most immediate problem there, son?"