The phrase "underscored the imperative for" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation that highlights the importance or urgency of a certain action or idea. Example: The recent spike in crime rates has underscored the imperative for increased police presence in our city.
In calling for new limits on the size of big banks and their ability to make risky bets, Mr. Obama was throwing a public punch at Wall Street for the third time in a week, underscoring the imperative for him and his party to strike a more populist tone, especially after the Republican victory Tuesday in the Massachusetts Senate race.
Comparing the economic evidence from both halves of the New Productivity Decade underscores the imperative for economic policies that are focused on both growth and on ensuring that its benefits are widely shared.
Our analysis also underscores the imperative of combining molecular function and biological context to annotate function as shown in the COG3643 example.
This study underscores the imperative of utilising both maternal and paternal education as screening variables to identify children at risk of missing measles vaccination prospectively.
All underscored the imperative that knowledge be translated into evidence that can guide policy and implementation.
Cost and sheer numbers, not to mention priorities and infrastructure, mean that personal genomics will only be accessible to a tiny minority for the near future, underscoring the imperative to ensure that the benefits of medical genomics are transferred through indirect mechanisms.
The UN climate chief, Christiana Figueres, said the church's newly unveiled teaching on the environment underscored the "moral imperative for urgent action".
It underscores the imperative that we act forcefully and cooperatively on climate change, not because of ideology, but because of science.
The administration's response suggests mounting evidence of chemical weapons underscores the imperative that the United States stand with the people of Syria during this critical period.
