imperative
Example Sentences
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“So it is imperative for the sector to post upwards earnings revisions for the recent outperformance to continue.”
From Barron's
Even before the first bombs fell on Iran, after all, the U.S. was shortchanging all those imperatives.
From Los Angeles Times
Merkley, the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, cited research suggesting that private equity’s imperative to maximize profits might conflict with the best interests of parents and children.
Lens added that their domestic league risks being "gradually relegated to the status of an adjustment variable at the whim of the European imperatives of some".
From BBC
The retail number has become one of the most important measures of China’s economic performance given the imperative to move toward greater domestic consumption.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
