This partnership shows how large corporations from a variety of backgrounds are taking the SDGs seriously, recognizing both the moral and financial imperatives of working towards sustainability solutions.
And they're making this an imperative of work, where prior generations didn't.
Any effort to get to the bottom of what happened — much less impose some real punishment on Moscow — will be subjugated to the imperative of "working constructively with Russia".
The article explains how the social justice imperatives of social work led the author to respond to an invitation by Alcoa World Alumina, Australia (Alcoa) to assist them with issues they were having with Yarloop, their neighbouring community.
"Confucian countries are now the most Protestant countries on earth, in terms of a moral imperative to work hard, save money, to do well," Mr. Inglehart said.
"There's an imperative to work together," Mr. Axelrod said.
It is imperative to work to attain these standards.
The James who became Jennifer, feeling that this was her destiny, might bring a different set of imperatives to her work.
There's presumably some kind of masochistic imperative at work here the perverse compulsion of masochism, that is, without any of the perverse pleasure.
Nobody likes to eat crow in plain sight, especially in front of millions of viewers, but there are other imperatives at work.
The Imperative of Consolidation," Working Paper no. 237, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, March 1997.
