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".
But this is the first one in which I've felt an emotional imperative to deliver.
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.
When Spirit's six wheels were operating, he said, the rover team felt a "relentless imperative" to drive it.
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.
"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.
"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.
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.
