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While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars.
Mike Crapo
Challenges
Met
Nation
Taxpayer
Military
Live
Our
Spend
Security
Must
Faces
Imperative
Wisely
Readiness
Within
Dollars
Regarding
While
Means
Many
Homeland
Homeland Security
Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.
Mira Nair
Freedom
Me
Game
Creative
Imperative
Exist
Hollywood
Really
The person I love most is the Dalai Lama. China destroyed his country, yet he says that it's imperative we show love for the Chinese.
Monique Roffey
Love
Country
Says
Destroyed
Imperative
He
Most
His
Person
Lama
China
Chinese
Show
Dalai
Dalai Lama
Dealing with crime using archaic methods has become impossible. So, it's imperative that we change the ways to counter them.
Nana Patekar
Change
Impossible
Crime
Become
Ways
Archaic
Imperative
Counter
Dealing
Methods
Them
Using
For Unilever, investing in women is an imperative. The business and social cases for doing so are inextricably linked.
Paul Polman
Business
Women
Cases
Imperative
Investing
Doing
Inextricably
Linked
Social
The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.
Paul Ricoeur
Law
Relation
One Aspect
Obeying
More
Imperative
Between
Concrete
Encompassing
Commanding
Than
Much
Aspect
Avoiding inflation is not an absolute imperative but rather is one of a number of conflicting goals that we must pursue and that we may often have to compromise.
Paul Samuelson
Goals
Inflation
Must
Rather
Compromise
Imperative
Absolute
Pursue
May
Often
Conflicting
Avoiding
Number
As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Education
Fall
Victim
Congress
Programs
Spending
Battles
Cost
Imperative
Over
Does
Education Programs
Math
Cutting
Funding
The Telephone Tour with Noname was a beautiful experience. Because this was only my second tour, I was not quite prepared for the small details that touring entails. I quickly realized how imperative it is to to sleep, eat healthily, and rest my voice.
Ravyn Lenae
Beautiful
Experience
Rest
Telephone
Entails
Details
Eat
Only
Small
Voice
Imperative
Tour
Touring
Because
How
Quickly
Quite
Realized
Prepared
Second
Sleep
Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Law
Political
Society
Civil
Civil Society
Similarly
Imperative
Indispensable
Participation
Supremacy
Democratization
Transparency
Elements
Among
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
Rene Daumal
Confusion
Language
Enough
Otherwise
Must
Clarity
Imperative
Chatter
Also
Content
Still
Goal
Descend
Babble
'The Newton Boys' was the one time I've made a film with really active characters who weren't at all self-reflexive and just plowed through their lives. There's a part of everyone that's like that. We have a biological imperative to keep living, keep moving forward... We have no choice.
Richard Linklater
Time
Moving Forward
Keep Moving Forward
Made
Active
Keep Moving
Living
Everyone
Characters
No Choice
One Time
Imperative
Through
Part
Like
Boy
Were
Just
Moving
Newton
Really
Choice
Who
Forward
Keep
Film
Lives
Biological
In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency.
Richard V. Allen
Party
Believe
Other
President
Members
Possible
Must
Imperative
Could
Select
Cabinet
Install
He
New
Imply
Inefficiency
Does
Context
His
Quickly
Contribute
Which
Inaction
Should
Team
Appoint
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.
Rick Bass
Day
You
Every Day
People
Before
Living
Every
Think
Moral
Must
Having
More
Imperative
Tender
Entrusted
Real
Been
Real People
Story
Sentence
Novelist
You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world.
Robyn Davidson
Time
You
World
Remember
Girl
Country
Out
Imperative
Discover
Australian
Australians
Get
Sixties
Fifties
When advertisers ignore diversity, it is because they don't think the lives of others matter. There is not enough of a financial imperative for those lives to matter.
Roxane Gay
Financial
Matter
Diversity
Think
Enough
Others
Those
Imperative
Advertiser
Because
Ignore
Lives
It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.
Sander Levin
Day
Quality
Women
Care
Imperative
Because
Without
Families
Affordable
Available
Them
Suffer
'Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it must happen.
Seth Shostak
Generation
Inflation
Must
Seems
Imperative
New
Endless
May
Happen
Eternal
Universes
Growth is essential and must be sustained. But rapid growth alone cannot address the problems arising out of continuing disparities. Tackling these is not just a matter of social justice but, more importantly, an existential necessity and a moral imperative.
Sonia Gandhi
Alone
Justice
Matter
Problems
Address
Out
Rapid
Rapid Growth
Moral
Must
Tackling
More
Imperative
Arising
Importantly
Continuing
Existential
Essential
Just
Sustained
Cannot
Social
Social Justice
Growth
Necessity
In the 1900s, bleaching lotions and skin-lighteners were a female imperative no matter what her colour, often carrying suggestive names like 'Fair-Plex Ointment' and 'Black-No-More.' The tiniest touch of rouge was allowed, but only if applied with great subtlety.
Susie Dent
Great
Matter
Carrying
Touch
Only
Imperative
Colour
Allowed
Like
Names
Female
Were
Tiniest
Often
Subtlety
Rouge
Her
Applied
Suggestive
Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.
Susie Orbach
Beauty
Become
Stars
Has-Been
Imperative
Invitation
Longer
Welcomed
Been
Option
Models
Movie
While
Movie Stars
Available
Much
Preserve
I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.
Tinie Tempah
Faith
Good
Religion
Be Kind
Think
Others
Kind
Morals
Imperative
Because
Economic and technical imperatives - not any preconceived directives - will keep propelling the process of energy transition.
Vaclav Smil
Will
Energy
Directive
Economic
Imperative
Any
Preconceived
Process
Transition
Keep
Technical
Much as I would like to give out as much as I can, I do recognize that my resources are not unlimited, and therefore, it is imperative that we are able to determine the sustainability and effectiveness of the causes we support. In so doing, we can ensure that our resources are put to the best use.
Vincent Tan
Best
Our
Resources
Unlimited
Ensure
Recognize
Out
Would
Able
Determine
Give
Imperative
Put
Support
Like
Doing
Causes
Effectiveness
Sustainability
Much
Use
Therefore
I can guarantee that back in the day, if a woman was left alone and she needed to eat, she would have to hunt. It's not biological imperative that says men have to ask us out; it's social conditioning. And we can change it.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Alone
Day
Change
Woman
Men
Back
Says
Hunt
Out
Would
Eat
Imperative
She
Conditioning
Left
Social
Ask
Us
Biological
Guarantee
Needed
It is imperative the United States continues to demonstrate its commitment to a unified Iraqi.
Will Hurd
Commitment
States
Imperative
Demonstrate
Iraqi
Unified
United
United States
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