imperative
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By Nixon’s time, South Vietnam’s survival was no longer a U.S. imperative for reasons that had their reciprocal elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
The "Economic Cities" programme was also aimed at diversifying the Saudi economy away from oil, which has been a perennial imperative in the Kingdom for decades.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
His proposed ballroom “represents another way this presidency has abandoned its imperative of projecting modesty, openness, and stability,” the architect and historian Neil Flanagan complained in the Atlantic this month.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
Mazariegos said conventions are a diminishing economic boon, but that now that the city is under contract, it is imperative that the center be ready for the Olympics.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Knowledge, of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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