In order to fulfill this promise, however, social finance must strike a delicate balance between two historically opposed imperatives, profit and social benefit.
Instead, we have an ever increasing cast of secondary characters, divided not by opposing moral imperatives but by mere ideology, two camps making precisely the same argument on behalf of righteousness.
In his chat with the players a month ago, Edwards tried to explain why improvement in the run defense was imperative: if opposing offenses could run at Abraham and get five or six yards, he said, the opposing team would never have to throw and Abraham would never get a chance to rush the passer.
This polarisation led these two groups of women to actively denigrate each others' life-course decisions, to becoming increasingly entrenched in their positions, defending the choices they had (often implicitly) made and, through this, to take opposing positions regarding the social imperative to demonstrate reproductive capability.
As those polls indicate, opposing abortion wasn't always a moral imperative for the Republican Party.
Standing next to the Saudi foreign minister at the same news conference, his Egyptian counterpart came close to directly opposing the same international action that the Saudis called morally imperative.
Most designers followed more commercial imperatives, as opposed to the whacked-out conceptual stuff that actually makes fashion fun.
Once you are on the same page with the opposing party, and have reached a compromised and/or collaborative agreement, it is imperative to get the agreement in writing.
The strongest military force opposing IS in Iraq is the Iranian-backed Shia militias, but the US imperative to limit Iranian influence in Iraq means that it does not want to support the militias with air strikes.
"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.
