imperative

The imperative to close all or portions of campuses potentially competes with the concurrent high priority of providing students with safe, up-to-date, fully resourced and inviting education environments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

It’s imperative that films challenge us and encourage discussion, even the bad ones.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Glasgow's education director, John McGhee, said fixing the problem was a "moral imperative".

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Instrumental convergence is the stuff on which nightmares are built, although I remain skeptical simply because of the overwhelming imperative of governments to protect their own prerogatives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Leo Szilard felt deeply the difficulty of balancing the imperative to build the bomb with humanitarian concerns about its use.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

They’re losing out on great candidates, visionary leaders and businesses, to say nothing of the moral imperatives of equal access and opportunity.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

Tehran’s twin imperatives appear to be keeping it at the negotiating table despite skirmishes in the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

Part of that is down to financial imperatives, as a big fall in oil prices before the current war in the Middle East meant that even Saudi Arabia's extraordinary wealth took a hit.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

Margulies explains how, when we allow obscure legal language to overshadow moral imperatives, we can end up in very dark places.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2026

She only patted my arm and said, “We can study imperatives tomorrow.”

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine