Since World War II, military considerations have barely factored into Japanese policy, and official development assistance, which began as war reparations, has placed international imperatives above domestic concerns.
Given international imperatives to develop locally responsive services and build sustainable empowered communities, research that investigates process and outcomes of community participation is of central importance for policy and practice.
We must act vis-à-vis Iraq in a way that persuades people that this is an international imperative, not an American preference".
"As one of the world's largest organisations, the NHS has a national and international imperative to act in order to make a real difference and to set an important example".
Eliminating ISIS has become an international imperative agreed upon by the East and the West.
Integrated team-based primary care is an international imperative.
Reform of primary care service delivery towards integrated, person-centred and multidisciplinary team-based care is an international imperative [ 1, 2].
A snapshot of the performance of "new News Corp's" news and information services division, which will include News International, highlights the imperative of getting the newspaper business into the black.
The rapidly growing global demand for energy and industrial raw materials from crude oil and the consequent depletion of crude oil reserves in addition to adverse environmental concerns and unstable nature of the international market make imperative the need to explore alternative sources of fuel and industrial raw materials.
Mr. Nossiter, zigzagging across three continents and visiting vineyard owners, wine consultants, critics and marketers, discovers a conflict between local tradition and the imperatives of international commerce.
The conviction "violates not only accepted international norms, but the imperatives of governance of the 21st century," said Philip J. Crowley, a State Department spokesman.
