The phrase "compelling imperative" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a phrase or statement that expresses a strong command or urgent request. You can use it in situations where there is a sense of urgency or importance, to emphasize the need for something to be done. For example: - The mayor's speech was a compelling imperative for the city to take action on climate change. - The doctor's words were a compelling imperative for her patient to quit smoking immediately. - The coach's message to the team was a compelling imperative to work harder and win the championship.
It acknowledged that many people had suffered in the conflict, including republicans, and said: "There is a compelling imperative on all sides to build a just and lasting peace". The statement itself came in the novel form of a video of ex-prisoner Seana Walsh reading the text, rather than the usual announcement issued under the pseudonym P O'Neill.
It is a compelling imperative for the state of Israel.
This "band of multi-generational misfits and iconoclasts [are] working to upend and reinvent traditional artistic techniques and approaches motivated by a deep, compelling imperative to subvert traditions and expectations".
"It was kind of a dreamy idea five years ago, and now it's turning into an increasingly compelling imperative". First, however, the city must clean up the area's four contaminated wells.
Once the internet age began in earnest, there was not a compelling imperative for small local newspapers, radio and TV stations in every state in the union, to transfer to the internet the entirety of their archives (from whatever date they started operations) to the web.
"The next police commissioner faces two equally compelling imperatives: first to continue to bring crime down, and second to help the city navigate its way out of the current conundrum about the stop-and-frisk tactics".
Because I believe that immigration judges can make these determinations with substantial deference to national security, I would affirm the District Court's judgment.... Cherished traditions of openness have come up against the vital and compelling imperatives of national security.
It's unsurprising that fear has become the most compelling artistic imperative in an economic climate where an inability to find an audience is more or less a death sentence.
Andrea Reimer, Vancouver's deputy mayor told the Guardian: "There's a compelling moral imperative but also a fantastic economic case to be a green city". The 100% goal is likely to be set for a target year of 2030 or 2035 for heating/cooling, with transport taking until 2040 to 2050.
And in a start-up, integrity has a compelling business imperative -- there is no time or money for people who can't be trusted.
Instead, it's critical for policy makers, politicians and, most importantly, the American public to understand that the support and care of wounded warriors, veterans and military families represent a compelling national security imperative.
