The phrase "a pressing imperative" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means an urgent need to do something, so it is useful in contexts where something needs to be done right away. For example, "Saving the environment is a pressing imperative that must be addressed immediately."
We are pleased that the court's judgment states that "the stop was lawful; it was also on the evidence, a pressing imperative in the interests of national security".
Historical accuracy demanded it, and the growing number of environmental crises in the region, he suggested, offered a pressing imperative for such a shift in focus.
There is a pressing imperative to identify efficiencies in weaning resulting in reduced ventilation duration to prevent ventilator associated morbidity and mortality, and also to offer solutions to existing constraints in critical care services.
" As such, many community members fear that health reforms will not adequately allow for community participation, creating a pressing imperative for their efforts to secure implementation of the Draft Policy and thereby formalize the CMHF as a basis for engagement within the DHS.
This, of course, is independent of the additional, but pressing imperative to reduce carbon emissions and prevent dangerous climate change.
These days, the argument runs, few workers expect to spend their careers in a single job, and the labour market is flexible enough for most to find new ones.The equally pressing imperative for government, therefore, is to address the über-worry beneath the fear of redundancy: voters' terror, especially acute in Britain, of losing their homes.
Although they must motivate their Republican base — and 38% of GOP voters told the Field Poll this month that they identified strongly with the tea party — the candidates' most pressing imperative now is to appeal to independent voters who can help Republicans surmount the Democratic advantage in registration.
Not surprisingly, many in Mexico therefore postulate that it's not in its national interest today -and that there's certainly no pressing imperative- to invest significant political and diplomatic capital in the relationship with the U.S. at this time; that all that is needed, given the "lack of interest" in ensuring an Ambassador is in place, is to keep the relationship on automatic pilot.
It said that the changes it has suggested, which include the development of independent community libraries, are not a "quick fix" or "short-sighted cost savings, rather they are a measured response to a pressing financial imperative".
Therefore, it is an important potential tool for decision-makers when achieving health equity is a pressing policy imperative, in an area where, to date, quantitative data has been limited.
WASHINGTON — On the eve of a planned trip to Africa, President Bush thrust himself into the role of peacemaker on Thursday, as his plans to promote American efforts against poverty and disease gave way to a more pressing imperative: addressing the violence and turmoil on the continent.
