Young women felt an imperative, a political duty, to understand their desire and responses, to explore their own pleasure, to recognize sexuality as something rising from within.
Climate change is a global problem: if countries are not confident that others are addressing it, they will not feel an imperative to act themselves.
"When people are engaging in sex, men will feel an imperative to use modes of address to the partners which they hear in porn, which are not necessarily the way you would like to use to talk to someone they want to have great sex with".
"Any DEA administrator feels an organizational imperative to support the existing drug laws and sentencing structure, even when doing so means opposing the purposes of the attorney general and the president, as we see currently," Kleiman said.
Crisscrossing France, Ms. Varda interviews an unemployed, alcoholic truck driver who gleans from economic necessity; a chef who gathers herbs and fruit from the fields around his two-star restaurant; an ecological activist who feels a moral imperative to eat what others throw away, and artists who find inspiration in cast-off materials.
But this is the first one in which I've felt an emotional imperative to deliver.
I'm writing now because I feel commanded -- that is, I feel an ethical imperative -- to publicize a miracle that happened in our day, at Georgetown University, where I serve as Rabbi and Director of the Jewish Chaplaincy.
"We feel a real imperative to have something in place when the second surge comes".
"Obviously, they feel a political imperative to spread this money around, and make the solution more politically acceptable," she said.
But, as global climate change continued to accelerate, my personal vision of Alaska as a place apart was challenged in an inescapable way, and I felt a growing imperative to expand my music to embrace a broader vision of the world.
We may have thought there was no simpler thing than a glass of water, but if we are directed to think of it as "Earth changed by fire, / Shaped by breath or pressure," or as "Time's / Viscid pawprint," suddenly it and everything else around us seems alive and unpredictable, and we feel a fresh imperative to negotiate anew our relationships with all we've thought of as certain.
