Ms. Everson said that Facebook's imperative to protect the privacy of its users precludes deeper sharing.
Now, police officials here express doubts about whether the imperative to protect domestic security has blinded federal authorities to other priorities.
Court staff are the foot-soldiers of judicial independence, and even a fool could grasp the imperative to protect their impartiality.
In many areas of the country, the imperative to protect natural habitats has led to tension with local communities, whose traditional hunting practices are seen as conflicting with conservation.
"When a baby is in medical distress, and the mother is in medical distress, and the directives point to an imperative to protect both human lives, those are the really difficult cases that hospital ethics committees grapple with," he said.
Policy makers had recognized a constitutional (and economic) imperative to protect American property from theft, to shield consumers from counterfeit products and fraud, and to combat foreign criminals who exploit technology to steal American ingenuity and jobs.
Mazzetti describes how the imperative to protect American troops in Afghanistan from cross-border attacks originating in Pakistan led to a slackening of the standards used to mark terror suspects for assassination.
Currently, the use of living organisms for biomonitoring is imperative to protect human and environmental health.
This is quite astonishing, especially considering the speed of change in the near future societies (cf. Toffler 1995; Webster 2006) and the simultaneously increasing awareness of the imperative to protect nature.
This history makes it imperative to protect Mueller's inquiry until it finds the truth.
