Sentence examples for an overwhelming imperative from inspiring English sources

We also had to think about whether we would be affirming the intentions of the killer if we had shown more detail; and whether there was an overwhelming imperative to show pictures which would undoubtedly have upset a good many, even those with no connection to the dead.

This becomes an overwhelming imperative for areas where long distances need to be travelled by caregivers, families and friends in metropolitan peri-urban and rural areas when inpatient services are dislocated from that person's own environment.

An overwhelming imperative to rebuild, augmented by the cold war, united Western Europe and pushed West Germany center stage.

It argued that the need to protect civilians was an overwhelming moral imperative.

But our correspondent says that dire predictions of a return to the violence of five years ago has not yet come true, and any lingering questions over the conduct of the election have been subordinated to an overwhelming national imperative: peace.

It constitutes an overwhelming ethical imperative in the context of preference sensitive care where the failure to elicit and act on patients' preferences is tantamount to operating on the wrong patient [ 51].

I mean the overwhelming imperative in America then to make an American art is sort of paralleled by the feeling I sense in Israeli art that the only really worthwhile problem is to find some way to give expression to Jewish experience.

But will the same public that sent lawmakers to Austin in November with an overwhelming no-new-taxes imperative accept paying more locally to preserve programs and jobs?

It is inexplicable to me looking back, but when we lived it forward, in the aftermath of Somalia, trying to get the support from a fairly isolationist Congress at the time — including some elements in both parties — to get into Bosnia, where I felt we had an overwhelming national interest and a moral imperative, we just blew it.

The inflammatory anti-choice language, often inaccurate and undergirded by a life-and-death, holocaust-like moral imperative, can have an overwhelming power, Fladen argues, above pitched rhetoric on other topics, to push people, even reasonable ones, to violence.

Some told us that giving in support of refugees is an expression of empathy and solidarity, a moral imperative in the face of an overwhelming humanitarian crisis, a political statement, and a stand for tolerance and against cynicism.