Sentence examples for imperative to confront from inspiring English sources

Portraying public employees' unions as standing in the way of the "general spending reform and smaller government that we support," he said there was also a political imperative to confront labor's traditional political might.

In a similar vein, Edward Said once insisted that engaging in historical and discursive reflection on ideological and cultural phenomena like Orientalism is not meant to vitiate the imperative to confront the profound material violence and injustice of imperialism's legacy.

The challenge becomes a more fair fight - or, maybe, it becomes much more difficult - when we realize that the call is very much an imperative to confront our own selves.

The evidence is clear that access to contraception is critical to reducing poverty, boosting economic growth and productivity, promoting environmental sustainability, and raising healthy and well-educated children -- all steps that are imperative to confronting a range of pressing foreign policy challenges around the globe.

Add to that the strange privilege of having a screen alter-ego and you can understand Thomas's creative imperative to constantly confront his true self.

Most important, Mr. Alagi suggested in an interview in the empty and echoing Justice Ministry here, was the imperative for Libyans to confront Qaddafi-era crimes in a country where there were no independent media to report them.

For its part, the Administration saw the need to balance several imperatives: the need to confront and help defeat what had become a transnational menace; the recognition that we had a responsibility to Iraq and to the Americans and Iraqis who had lost their lives during that long war; and the understanding that Iraqi reform and not American force was the key to any solution.

The turbulent post-war years of the 1950s made it imperative that the United States to confront the way it treated black citizens.

We hope to promote greater awareness among our readers of the strong link between antimicrobial drug use and the development of resistance and to make clear that improving use in community, healthcare, and agriculture settings, combined with other strategies, is imperative if we are to confront effectively the further development and spread of antimicrobial resistance.

Using a rationalization for repressive measures that dates back at least to the French Revolution, the Russian President cited national-security imperatives, such as the need to confront Chechen terrorism.

The intelligence authorization bill is just one in a heaping pile of mundane but annually imperative funding measures that Congress neglected to confront during the last 11 months of this session.