The military and civil machinery thus in order, the authorities now devoted themselves to the more immediate work of manufacturing the requisite majority.

The immediate work had already been divided among three hundred unhurt soldiers.

When those were reclaimed, he released Markham and the detectives; put them to immediate work.

Lon forced himself to stop thinking about that, to concentrate on his immediate work.

According to the school, more than 90 percent of its graduates find immediate work.

One part of her concentration was on the immediate physical work at hand, the other was listening for Abner's voice.

A 2004 safety review reported that immediate work was required to restore the spillway, at an estimated cost of N272 million.

He said about $500,000 had been designated for more immediate work "to keep rain from coming in."

I'll pick up immediate work in a restaurant and work on my resume after that.

The 32 schools needed immediate work costing $1.6 million, the company found.