What is "pertinent"

Usage examples of "pertinent".

Because of all the confusion, misinformation floating around, and the fact that very little information was then being made available, my staff and I immediately went to work to make the official Senator Bill Frist website a central place where anyone could go to find accurate, up-to-date, pertinent information both on anthrax generally and on the rapidly evolving situation in the Senate office buildings.

No blood cultures or other tests had confirmed the presence of anthrax, but all the pertinent tests were pending.

Captain Brooker raised the pertinent point of what was to be done with the women and children of the prisoners, and while the Captains made their suggestions, Frederickson looked appealingly towards Sharpe.

Before the gyn even examined Marcie, he asked Chase pertinent questions relating to the attack.

In fact, he said nothing to me at all, merely nodding whenever Monish explained something or made a pertinent point.

Nevertheless, it would appear to be advantageous for the pathologist not to interject himself into the actual profiling process prior to completing his own analysis of the pertinent submitted materials.

The redacted memories are permitted to us when they are directly pertinent to the conduct of our interest and efforts, or for other reasons of public need.

If we were dead, its loyalty programming would store all pertinent information about us and our deaths in unerasable files-and without further instructions of who it should report to, it would shut down and wait for the next person to open it up and assign ownership to himself.

Nelson to repeat pertinent facts about the patient named Birmingham Jones.

I fell into sleep as into a pit, disturbed by pertinent dreams of crystals and mines and dead bodies along the road, wakening when the others returned along about noon.

It was a pertinent question and Bandar now noticed that attached to the lapel of his robe were the pin and pendant of a runner-up for the Fezzani Prize, a notable academic achievement.

As a private consultant, she is limited by the medicolegal information presented to her, and the absence of pertinent findingsor the presence of incorrect findingsis intolerable.

Although holidays such as Pesach do coincide with the calendar dates of ancient miracles, the purpose of these holidays is something much more pertinent to our lives than mere remembrance.

It was the latter responsibility that was pertinent, in that Shop 72 maintained the breathing rigs for sounding-and-security personnel going inside the ships where there was no breathable atmosphere.

This Weberian dichotomy has remained vivid and pertinent down to our own day.