imperative

“And most importantly, I heard a Democratic leadership that convinced their own voters that Democrats felt it imperative to provide people with affordable and accessible health care, and that that was non-negotiable for them.”

The end of the war in 1918 brought an urgent shared imperative: to make sense of what had happened; to find meaning, a way to believe that it had not been for nothing.

London's housing crisis is "not just a social issue but an economic imperative", says Simon Carter, CEO of property company British Land.

It is imperative the ETF holds near current levels.

The hostage-taking provided what decades of legitimate Israeli grievances couldn’t: a broadly recognized imperative that eventually overcame the propaganda.