Sentence examples for pressing imperative from inspiring English sources

This, of course, is independent of the additional, but pressing imperative to reduce carbon emissions and prevent dangerous climate change.

These days, the argument runs, few workers expect to spend their careers in a single job, and the labour market is flexible enough for most to find new ones.The equally pressing imperative for government, therefore, is to address the über-worry beneath the fear of redundancy: voters' terror, especially acute in Britain, of losing their homes.

There is a pressing imperative to identify efficiencies in weaning resulting in reduced ventilation duration to prevent ventilator associated morbidity and mortality, and also to offer solutions to existing constraints in critical care services.

WASHINGTON — On the eve of a planned trip to Africa, President Bush thrust himself into the role of peacemaker on Thursday, as his plans to promote American efforts against poverty and disease gave way to a more pressing imperative: addressing the violence and turmoil on the continent.

Not surprisingly, many in Mexico therefore postulate that it's not in its national interest today -and that there's certainly no pressing imperative- to invest significant political and diplomatic capital in the relationship with the U.S. at this time; that all that is needed, given the "lack of interest" in ensuring an Ambassador is in place, is to keep the relationship on automatic pilot.

The country's economic travails are more global in nature; one of its most pressing imperatives, to trim state spending, was less urgent in Mrs Thatcher's day.

These realities need not, however -- indeed, must not -- distract from the more pressing imperatives of U.S.-China relations: avoiding a military confrontation, averting a new Cold War in which countries such as Australia have to "pick" one country over the other, and ensuring that the competitive interactions between them don't race ahead of the collaborative ones.

Responding to the threat of catastrophic warming is our most pressing energy imperative.

It said that the changes it has suggested, which include the development of independent community libraries, are not a "quick fix" or "short-sighted cost savings, rather they are a measured response to a pressing financial imperative".

As the drums of national retreat sound across Europe (and the UK takes over as chair of the Council of Europe), noticing the human person seems more like the pressing constitutional imperative of our age.

We should not close our hearts, retreat behind walls, real or imagined, or ignore the pressing moral imperative to provide assistance and sanctuary for some of the world's most desperate people.