at hand

Part of the challenge now, Pocan says, is raising public awareness about the issues at hand.

There was “no democratic utopia at hand in Spain in 1936. Quite the opposite. Had the Nationalists lost the Civil War, it’s unlikely the result would have been political democracy.”

I turn back to the task at hand —to the chunks of rubble, to the door hundreds of feet up.

This broker would not mind being awoken at midnight if there was some quick and profitable business at hand!

The day began with gifts and a song, and there were friends close at hand to share jokes and make a fuss.