Some believe that expanding insurance coverage is a moral imperative regardless of its cost.
Abolishing slavery added a moral imperative that Lincoln believed was vital to the cause.
Trouble is, few people disagree with the moral imperative of a war grounded in humanitarian principles.
If ordinary politics are a battle between good and evil, then winning becomes an overriding moral imperative.
If self-sacrifice for the needs of others is a moral imperative, then so is the entitlement state.
Meantime in India new markets are being driven by the moral imperative: to raise the bottom of the pyramid.
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We always talk about -- particularly Democrats -- we talk about health care in terms of the moral imperative.
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Providing all Americans with health coverage is a health, economic and moral imperative.
The snag is that an overt blocking move would antagonise Germany's elite, which sees enlargement as a strategic and moral imperative.
Here, the difficulty is baked right in: the strategic and moral imperative becomes being able to identify strategic and moral imperatives.
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We would agree that saving Mark's life is vital, indeed a moral imperative if it is within our powers to do so.
We are not above the laws of nature and have a moral imperative to maintain the biodiversity of which we are part.
This is in our hard interest, not just a soft moral imperative.
"It's absolutely an unconditional moral imperative, " Buck said of getting Maree released.
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If we are a nation of promise breakers who borrows with no sense of the moral imperative to repay, our IOUs become worthless.
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There is a moral imperative in the focus on the interests and views of people, improving the lives of employees, customers, and partners.
It seems to me that our continuing moral imperative is to create (and defend) a society that allows creators--that would be all of us--to create.
The moral imperative of the former is evident by its definition.
There is some good news to report: both the general public and individual legislators understand and are responsive to the moral imperative of stopping humanitarian crises.
But he insisted the market economy was the most successful system yet devised for improving living standards, and that there was a moral imperative to create wealth.
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The moral imperative, in terms of an environmental ethics today, is to support the regenerative capacities of nature while restraining the excessive demands of our consumerist culture.
Hypocritical perhaps, but the moral imperative not to let Mr Milosevic's brutality stand was a more convincing casus belli than Serbia's mere refusal to sign up at Rambouillet.
I've been hearing from my Republican friends for quite some time that it is a moral imperative for us to tackle our debt and our deficits in a serious way.
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As a nation, we have a moral and economic imperative to give every child the chance to succeed.
In an era of globalized economic, financial, social and environmental crises, the quest for the intellectual and moral solidarity of humankind has become an urgent imperative to build the foundations for sustainable peace.
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