"It's illegal, but it's also a moral imperative," shrine said.
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This is both a moral imperative and a national necessity.
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It is a moral imperative and an act of conscience.
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We have one moral imperative here, and that's beating Trump.
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It's also a moral imperative especially in a wealthy nation.
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Closing Guantanamo was once perceived as a bipartisan moral imperative.
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As McAuliffe describes it, a better workforce is a "moral" imperative.
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We have one moral imperative, and that's to beat Donald Trump.
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Other Israelis believe it a moral imperative to let them stay.
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But supporters of the bill see it as a moral imperative.
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Mr. Inslee speaks passionately about the moral imperative of the issue.
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Appreciating New England in the fall seemed like a moral imperative.
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Isn't it a moral imperative for artists to engage, engage, engage?
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If anything, it underscores why Trump's impeachment is a moral imperative.
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President, fulfill your moral imperative towards the people of Puerto Rico.
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But in today's Republican Party, the moral imperative to stamp out public funding for Planned Parenthood has completely trumped the moral imperative to make sure low-income women, and men, can get comprehensive reproductive health care.
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But there are times when a moral imperative outweighs traditional social norms.
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That gives the company a moral imperative to treat its users honestly.
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This is moral imperative for both leaders to say to him, 'Enough.
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Mr. President fulfill your moral imperative towards the people of Puerto Rico.
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Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement as a moral imperative.
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As a nurse practitioner, I agree universal coverage is a moral imperative.
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That's why upgrading our national water infrastructure is a national moral imperative.
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"There's a cautionary tale, a moral imperative to his work," she said.
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"Getting this right is an economic and moral imperative," Mr. Ryan said.
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This is not only a moral imperative, it is in America's interest.
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I wouldn't say it's a moral imperative, but it's what you are.
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This seems to be a moral imperative as well as an aesthetic choice.
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It is not only a moral imperative, it is essential for good business.
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This is a moral imperative for both leaders to say to him, 'Enough.
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It is a moral imperative that we reach universal health care in America.
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It's not just a moral imperative; it's also a creative and economic one.
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Many scientists and conservationists also feel that protecting elephants is a moral imperative.
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The moral imperative has not changed since Aylan washed up on that beach.
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It's our moral imperative to stop deportations and the tearing apart of families.
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Bernie Sanders and his allies have long portrayed it as a moral imperative.
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"I see it as a moral imperative that clinicians get care," he says.
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Mr. Chau saw it as his moral imperative to get to the island.
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Whether it's realistic or not, it's a moral imperative that we do it.
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For us, it's not just a moral imperative, but it makes good financial sense.
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He supplied the moral imperative but failed to follow through with a concrete directive.
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Blunting the humanitarian crises in Yemen is a security, political, economic and moral imperative.
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Most of Oprah's stump speech was a meditation on the moral imperative to vote.
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"It is not just a political responsibility — it is a moral imperative," he continued.
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"There's no moral imperative to price gouge and take advantage of patients," Gottlieb tweeted.
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I now see net neutrality as a key civil rights issue—and moral imperative.
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Building resilience to disasters not only makes economic sense, it is a moral imperative.
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But it seems to me you had a moral imperative for going into politics.
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Because we have a moral imperative to act and act in a real way.
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It is not only the law, it is the moral imperative of this nation.
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That implicit moral imperative helped insulate them from the criticisms that businesses might otherwise face.
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"Actions to put the brakes on climate change are a moral imperative," the statement said.
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News Corp sources describe its battle against the platforms as a business, not moral imperative.
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"It is a moral imperative to help people if it is our power," he said.
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So I don't see it as a moral imperative to maintain that duty of confidentiality.
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The quest "was a moral imperative I had to fulfill," she writes in the book.
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Turning up the pressure on Assad is both a strategic necessity and a moral imperative.
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We firmly believe that advocating on behalf of the Uighur population is a moral imperative.
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Having plumbed the depths of depravity, it knows a moral imperative when it sees one.
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The idea that preventing catastrophic climate change is a moral imperative should be fairly straightforward.
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Investing in global development also fulfills a moral imperative: saving millions of lives every year.
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Many of these ethnic communities of newcomers also self-imposed the moral imperative of assimilation.
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We have the necessity, the moral imperative, to address the existential threat of climate change.
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We have the necessity, the moral imperative, to address the existential threat of climate change.
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Progressives have usually seen broadening access as the bigger moral imperative than holding down costs.
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It's huge, but progressives consider it a moral imperative given the fast encroachment of climate change.
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" Brent Welder, one of Niermann's primary opponents, calls Medicare for All an "economic and moral imperative.
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Where there is a rising fascism there is a moral imperative to oppose and stop it.
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Investing in women and girls was a moral imperative as well as smart national security policy.
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Access to and success in higher education is fast becoming an economic, if not moral, imperative.
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But these military men, working with Human Rights First, felt a moral imperative to oppose torture.
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AIDS made clear that marriage equality was as much a moral imperative as an institutional one.
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" The Republican Party platform calls for establishing a pro-growth tax code, calling it a "moral imperative.
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Universal healthcare, to her, is a moral imperative she believes can be accomplished by Medicare for all.
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Today, political engagement is something between a moral imperative and an expected stop on the press tour.
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Another Israeli official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, framed Netanyahu's efforts as a moral imperative.
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The greater the victimhood, the greater the status of the victim and the greater the moral imperative.
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"I think there is a moral imperative to get government working again," he said in an interview.
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Utilitarianism confronts the notorious difficulty of ranking quality of life and ignores the moral imperative of urgency.
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We believe honesty is a moral imperative, and we try to instill this belief in our children.
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Some said it was a moral imperative for the United States to stay in the Paris pact.
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But the events in Charlottesville crystallized those views and made speaking out feel like a moral imperative.
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They, like the Laxalt relatives, called it a moral imperative to speak out against their family member.
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He understands the moral imperative of advancing the cause of life, and we've spoken of it many times.
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Not a PR/Marketing front, not an isolated and under-resourced HR program and not (just) moral imperative.
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But anyone arguing that reducing physical waste is a moral imperative needs to reckon with recycling's hidden costs.
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In 2013, he said it was a "moral imperative" to end hunger in Africa, the world's poorest continent.
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It is no longer simply a moral imperative to pursue such a zone but also a strategic imperative.
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"There should be a moral imperative to do the right thing, not a legal impetus," the organization said.
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You not only want to listen to what's being said; you also feel it's somehow a moral imperative.
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The moral imperative is obvious, but for organizations that subsist largely on charitable donations, it is also existential.
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For those who believe that this is a national emergency, severing ties may feel like a moral imperative.
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Around the turn of the century, celebrity pastors with huge followings began framing adoption as a moral imperative.
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Or is there a value, even a moral imperative, in presenting the threats, as frightening as they are?
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This means accepting that medication based therapies are effective and rejecting the "moral" imperative of abstinence only programs.
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Blitzek framed the battle against Moore, who has called for homosexuality to be illegal, as a moral imperative.
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Therefore, the debate about immigration should not be conducted as an uncompromising struggle about some non-negotiable moral imperative.
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He has called a clean environment a human right, helping to transform a scientific issue into a moral imperative.
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Mr President, you seem to want to disregard the moral imperative that your administration has been unable to fulfill.
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They said they viewed their work on the app, which they make no money from, as a moral imperative.
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The health and well-being of our veterans is not only a moral imperative, it serves the common good.
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So the "shoe on the other foot" test is not only a moral imperative, it is a pragmatic caution.
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He was railing against Mr. Trump, yes, but his words amounted to a moral imperative, a call to arms.
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But I think we lose the moral imperative if we start saying that something that is green is red.
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Reforming our jail system and closing Rikers Island is not simply good public policy — it is a moral imperative.
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"It is our nation's moral imperative to take responsibility for what our children learn," Melania Trump says https://t.
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You talk a lot about diversity as not just a moral imperative, so it's not just the right thing.
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They're starting to get the message that acting now to protect vulnerable people online – esp children – is a moral imperative.
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Some worry that making money from philanthropy cannot be squared with the basic moral imperative to care for the needy.
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President Trump has transformed the Republican Party's long-standing opposition to abortion from a moral imperative into a political winner.
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It is time to achieve the long-deserved right and moral imperative to become the 51st state in the union.
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Now I place my hope in the faith community to transcend politics and tackle this issue as a moral imperative.
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His campaign views Medicare for All as a moral imperative, comparing it to past struggles like the civil rights movement.
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"Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a moral imperative — and it's better for business," said Comptroller Scott Stringer, announcing the settlement.
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If the Republicans' goal was to persuade Democrats of a moral imperative to join them in support, they fell short.
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As a black woman, I've come to see speaking up about race in my personal relationships as a moral imperative.
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This meant that news media, perhaps more than ever, had a moral imperative to cover the story diligently and empathetically.
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His stance on refugees was presented as both a moral imperative and a key step in revitalizing Rutland's dwindling economy.
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Pat Roberts, a Republican of Kansas who chairs the Agriculture Committee, said that just as supporters of the Green New Deal believe they have moral imperative of protecting the planet, members of the agriculture industry -- who he argued already are conservation-minded -- believe they have a moral imperative to feed a hungry country and world.
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"Gender equality is not just a moral imperative, it is good business," said Britain's Minister for Women and Equalities Penny Mordaunt.
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This is not only a "moral imperative", argues Roberto Cardarelli, the IMF's mission chief for Argentina, but a practical one too.
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We have a "moral imperative" to accept the benefits of integrating robots into society, an expert told CNBC's "Power Lunch " Friday.
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"Reproduction as a moral imperative," she breathes into the Commander's ear at the movies, in case we're not sure she's complicit.
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When questioned about justification, the EPA typically defaults to a moral imperative to supplant fossil fuels regardless of costs or futility.
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In the midst of an outbreak of nativism and tribalistic tendencies, it is a moral imperative that Republican leaders speak up.
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The eighth "moral imperative" is what they call "The Velella Mariculture Research Project," a floating pen used to sustainably grow fish.
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Implementing policies to promote compliance and contain the spread of disease is both a moral imperative and a public health necessity.
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She's a complex woman who thought her beliefs about "reproduction as a moral imperative" were the salve for a disintegrating world.
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"It's a moral imperative to disobey unethical laws and they're going to fight and not relapse back to smoking," Conley said.
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That fact remains unchanged, and my hope is that Congress will recognize its passage as the moral imperative that it is.
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" Speaking just days before Mr. Macron's "non" on moving forward, Mr. Fried said that accession talks were now a "moral imperative.
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"Clearly, there was a legitimate, factual basis; in fact the FBI had a moral imperative to begin this investigation," Democratic Sen.
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He highlighted the moral imperative of doing something about climate change, an argument Pope Francis has been making recently, with much success.
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The GOP leaders were patriots and decent human beings who had the "moral imperative" tell their party's presidential nominee "enough," Khan said.
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Indeed, I believe that such reform is the moral imperative of our generation, and must be "numero uno" on the national agenda.
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"It's a public health issue ... I think we have the moral imperative to act," state Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D) told the Bee.
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As such, being responsive to civil rights concerns is not just a moral imperative but a business imperative for all online platforms.
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He was also, and this is what I most appreciated about him, someone who believed in the upsell as a moral imperative.
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We firmly believe the crisis of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is both a moral imperative and an issue of national security.
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But in Mr. Chhang Song's view, whatever the motivation of the Cambodian government, the moral imperative for the United States is clear.
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There's some conversation around there that is shifting how much ethical imperative and moral imperative you have to preach the ideals of democracy.
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I would never judge somebody else for not coming out, but for me, personally, it did start to feel like a moral imperative.
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Meeting their basic human needs and helping them heal from the mental and physical wounds of war is more than a moral imperative.
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But there's no moral imperative to endure market volatility if you don't need or want the long-term benefits we expect to receive.
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But this year seems to bring with it a moral imperative to have uncomfortable conversations about the very real stakes of this election.
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And the private sector, alongside humanitarian aid organizations already active on the island, faces a moral imperative to lend expertise, goods and services.
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If that's right, it's plausible that the most important moral imperative is to make sure that the very long-run future goes well.
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Abrams isn't just advocating for Medicaid expansion as a moral imperative that would cover nearly 500,000 people; she's also making a fiscal case.
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I don't think there was a moral imperative behind that one way or the other, other than optimizing for time on site and revenue.
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Of course, this is a vital concern to all who think that the needs of the weak or disabled are the deep moral imperative.
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Besides all the other good reasons to limit carbon pollution—the threats to our health, environment, economy, security— there is this: The moral imperative.
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Unless compelled by some moral imperative, developers aren't likely to risk their business any more than they have to in the name of privacy.
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In a globally connected world, preventing genocide and mass atrocities is not only a moral imperative, but it is in our national security interest.
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Raising wages in Mexico is not only a moral imperative, but is essential to reversing the draw for firms to outsource U.S. jobs there.
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Cruz called Trump the "hater in chief" and said he was "incapable of fulfilling the moral imperative" to help the people of Puerto Rico.
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Clinton should give the kind of speech that President Johnson gave to a joint session of Congress about the moral imperative of the nation.
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They understood that expanding affordable care is a moral imperative but, more to the point, it's also a good investment in the public's health.
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But he called it a moral imperative, one that will allow full-time workers at the low end to better provide for their children.
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At the same time, they want the public to ignore the moral imperative presented by families forced to migrate because of that same violence.
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Some have argued that depriving the Venezuelan government of cash is a moral imperative, because not doing so amounts to paying a hostage-taker.
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But if these strategies work to save and improve lives, there's a moral imperative for all levels of government to take them more seriously.
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We can be a country that fulfills its moral imperative to make sure every single child has the resources and opportunities they need to succeed.
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In limiting global warming, wealthy countries face a moral imperative to look beyond their borders and GDPs, pushing even harder to cut their own emissions.
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Francis doesn't care for Trump, he auctioned his famous Harley Davidson to feed the poor, and says that preventing environmental catastrophe is a moral imperative.
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Democrats backing Sanders' bill are arguing that eventually embracing single-payer is a moral imperative -- even as they elevate Sanders, their potential future primary foe.
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Beyond the moral imperative of treating people fairly and giving everyone their best shot, there is a business case to be made for diverse hiring.
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"There's so much opportunity through economies of scale and efficiencies to fix health care, which I see as a social and moral imperative," Melton said.
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It also makes a strong case for the moral imperative of a strong and vibrant human services ecosystem with CBOs working as a vital partner.
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Since when does a violation of immigration law impose a moral imperative upon the country whose borders are violated to be complicit in the trespass?
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The German leader has defended her policies of open borders, arguing that Germany has a moral imperative to help refugees and "maintain" the country's diversity.
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They acted partly out of a moral imperative, but also out of fear that the fabric of society was being torn apart by racial conflict.
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The associations between gay sex and disease, and the moral imperative attached to condom use, she and other providers say, may have made the problem worse.
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Individual comfort is not as important as the perpetuation of the population, so having sex (in rigid, proper set-ups, of course) is a moral imperative.
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I considered it a moral imperative to determine how professors and students alike could – and truly need to - utilize technology to improve the quality of education.
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In speeches, debates and ads, Democrats from across the party's ideological spectrum are describing efforts to defend and expand coverage and care as a moral imperative.
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Framing the need for such guidance as a moral imperative should make it easier for the FBI to accept the temporary subordination of its primary mission.
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"What it put on me is a moral imperative on actually making sure that I was producing could be used for the public benefit," he said.
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"I've had this vision for a long time," said Hamilton, who speaks with a preacher's zeal about the moral imperative of fighting racial and economic inequality.
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Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus Rift, and his chief technology officer, John Carmack, even speak of a "moral imperative" to bring virtual reality to the masses.
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Alphabet CEO Eric Schmidt once told The New York Times' Miguel Helft that he thought Google had a "moral imperative" to reimburse publishers beset by falling revenue.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), for instance, has called on Democrats to ignore the political dangers and focus on what she calls the moral imperative to oust Trump.
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He has made food security a priority of his development agenda, saying in 2013 it was a "moral imperative" to end hunger on the world's poorest continent.
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It's also clear that she is positioning her bid for the presidency as a moral imperative, using the language of spirituality that is woven throughout her work.
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It's a tough argument to make, that there's a moral imperative here, but there is, more than ... Well, there's more on imperative in terms of chemical companies.
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" Given the way some of Mr. Trump's backers — here and in Russia — have engaged in such tactics, he said, there was "a moral imperative to do this.
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The moral imperative for the remainder of the lives of everyone now living is to decarbonize as fast as possible; that is true no matter the temperature.
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Angry members spoke passionately about the "moral imperative" to defeat Clinton, a figure many Republicans have come to loathe after more than 25 years in national politics.
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But at the same time, you have a moral imperative to do what you can for your kids and educate them to the best of your ability.
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"The provision of basic education, free of cost, is not only a core obligation of states but also a moral imperative," the UN's Kishore Singh has written.
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In the "old world," Serena had all of her Gilead-creating ideas because she viewed pregnancy as a moral imperative and possible national commodity in a crumbling world.
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Better people with a moral imperative, who have a sense of equality and a sense of social justice, than a bunch of rich douchebags who are already rich.
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The pontiff has been a vocal advocate for aiding refugees, particularly those fleeing the violence in Syria, deeming it both a "moral imperative" and "Christian duty" to help.
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Everyone is always talking about how bad partisanship is—but what if anti-Trumpism wasn't partisanship but a moral imperative that all Americans, Republican or Democrat, could embrace?
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Those who advocate a "just say no" approach will tell you it's not merely a moral imperative: It's also the smartest way for Democrats to stage a comeback.
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It was, Keitt said, not just a question of good stewardship but our moral imperative to do everything in our power to stop these extinctions and protect biodiversity.
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Others, like Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr, believe there is instead a moral imperative to override such privacy if access to personal data could help save others' lives.
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"There is a moral imperative that we are all in this together," says Sandro Galea, a physician, epidemiologist, and dean of the Boston University School of Public Health.
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The more I fell in love with that mission, the more I came to understand what Walmart does in America and around the world as a moral imperative.
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The titular instillation is a multi-disciplinary piece that asks the casual citizen to consider the moral imperative of his or her participation in the world at large.
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The Carpetbagger For a while at the decades-long Directors Guild of America awards on Saturday night, it seemed the apparent front-runners were having a moral imperative showdown.
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" However, she continues, because "parenthood is seen as a moral imperative, something that we are supposed to do, this helps us understand why views about abortion are so strong.
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We have a moral imperative to choose and advocate for plant-based diets for the health of our planet and the well being and survival of generations to come.
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I don't like to evangelize about exercise because it's tangled up with the rise of "wellness" culture, where health has become this moral imperative, not to mention weirdly performative.
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We can always hope for the best next time but the reality is as elected officials we have a moral imperative to keep our constituents, staff and ourselves safe.
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" San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, a frequent Trump critic, wrote that the president was "incapable of fulfilling the moral imperative" to help Puerto Ricans, adding, "Shame on you!
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Several California Democratic lawmakers cast support for the resolution as a moral imperative, saying that the president's comments and actions have given them no choice but to speak out.
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Repeal and replace was a cynical, partisan reaction to Obamacare, whereas the push for single-payer is rooted in a moral imperative to improve the lives of all Americans.
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Advocates of an impeachment push, meanwhile, see it as a moral imperative and wise strategy, providing the starkest possible contrast between the Democratic opposition and the Republicans in power.
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We need to galvanize passive supporters of abortion rights by communicating that the fight for reproductive freedom is a fight for justice, and that the moral imperative is ours.
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But the case for admitting refugees is not merely utilitarian — bring in 10,85033 refugees and get one Google and one Latin dance hit — it is rather a moral imperative.
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But strong password management and two-factor authentication have become genuine necessities, and, in my opinion, using every available method to protect your online data is a moral imperative.
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"Spending a little to keep a child healthy isn't only a moral imperative; it is also a long-term investment in a secure and thriving world," the Gates' wrote.
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"It is not that you do not get it; you are incapable of fulfilling the moral imperative to help the people of PR," Cruz tweeted at Trump in October.
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In presenting them, the president made little secret of his frustration that his quest to close Guantánamo, once regarded as a bipartisan moral imperative, had become a divisive political issue.
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Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who introduced the Inmate Calling Technical Corrections Act of 2018, addressing the problem of predatory prison phones rates is a practical, as well as moral, imperative.
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History did effectively legitimize the revolution, providing its early moral imperative — redressing the imperialist depredations of the republic — and it endures, mutatis mutandis, as a marker of collective, national identity.
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And while the Latino community views immigration reform that upholds the dignity and contributions of our community as a central political and moral imperative, we are not single-issue voters.
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In civilized countries they largely stay below the surface, because the prevailing moral view discourages such sentiments, and this moral imperative is voiced by society's political, academic and religious leaders.
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Lazy and disorganized people (and fresh-faced kids with poor budgeting skills) might also go hungry at your office, but there is less moral imperative to feed them (every day).
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"Any organisation committed to operating responsibly in this new decade has a moral imperative to stop participating in financing the destruction of human civilization's future," they said in a statement.
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The urgency of this political moment makes it a moral imperative to direct these resources toward organizations that will produce meaningful outcomes for ordinary people, not just pursue institutional durability.
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She told lawmakers they have a "moral imperative" to help reunite Jewish families with Holocaust-stained art that has made its way into museums and private collections around the world.
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Trump critics believe that, in addition to meeting a moral imperative, the inquiry will put the president under the most intense spotlight yet, exposing misdeeds and crushing his reelection hopes.
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It is our moral imperative to acknowledge our common humanity and to honor our commitment to act in the best interests of all children, no matter where they were born.
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Trump ignores the powerful moral imperative behind the Civil War, which was ending in our country one of the history's greatest crimes against humanity: the enslavement of our fellow human beings.
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As communities flee the instability and violence that has resulted from this global transformation, it seems a moral imperative that we, the beneficiaries, find ways to welcome, protect, and accommodate them.
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"I think it was a coalition of individuals really pulling on those Republicans who saw this as a moral imperative but also saw it as a financial imperative," Plaskett said. Sen.
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" She continued: "I think these two issues have no reason to be mangled through -- we are thankful for any help that comes our way, and, frankly, there is a moral imperative.
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Countries had a "moral imperative" to help exiles, asylum seekers, migrant workers, victims of human trafficking and even migrants in "irregular situations," he added in an apparent reference to undocumented immigrants.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "No, Not Trump, Not Ever" (column, March 18): David Brooks eloquently lays out the moral imperative for disavowing Donald Trump despite the candidate's recent electoral victories.
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Presidents in both parties have historically perceived it as a cost-effective investment for forging positive diplomatic ties, ensuring global security, and fulfilling a moral imperative to help others in need.
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As we pioneer we have a responsibility — a moral imperative — to not only understand the effect we are having on this world but also to step up and own that responsibility.
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Diversity in Hollywood is no longer just a moral imperative — it's become a business requirement for the major studios that make up the Motion Picture Association — Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Warner Bros.
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" — Elon Musk, entrepreneur, on Twitter, referring to his role on two White House advisory boards "Addressing climate change is not just an environmental or moral imperative, it is an economic imperative.
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"I believe it is our ethical and moral imperative to investigate the Major League Baseball cheating scandal fully and to determine the extent to which this cancer has spread," he added.
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"It is a moral imperative to give hardworking New Yorkers the opportunity to take a personal day without fear of losing their job or paycheck," de Blasio said through a spokesperson.
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While acknowledging that the US has the right to set whatever immigration policy it sees fit, "in the current situation, the Mexican government has a moral imperative to act," the statement added.
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Many would say there is a moral imperative for platforms to take down legal-but-offensive or harmful speech — including seriously disturbing material like Holocaust denial tracts and suicide how-to videos.
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We have a moral imperative to save our country from a Republican midterm victory that vindicates Trump and chastens the few GOP moderates who are left, in both senses of the word.
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"Just as Congress recognized 60 years ago, feeding hungry children is not only a moral imperative, but also a federal responsibility, vital to the health and security of our nation," he added.
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"It is not that you do not get it; you are incapable of fulfilling the moral imperative to help the people of PR," Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz tweeted at Trump in October.
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Still, the World Bank's own research shows that embracing the protection of human rights as a core part of its mission is more than a moral imperative; it makes good economic sense.
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But in the current cultural climate, where powerful men are tumbling like bowling pins because of bad behavior that has its roots in the objectification of women, what about the moral imperative?
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As they work to perfect self-driving cars, they must weigh valid safety concerns against whether there is a moral imperative to deploy autonomous vehicle technology faster if it will help save lives.
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" He will also be discussing "the planetary crisis of climate change and the moral imperative to make sure we leave this planet in a way that is healthy and habitable for future generations.
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Most important, he devised a mode of resistance that skillfully infused mass politics with a moral imperative—to end the vicious cycle of violent antagonism and to prepare the ground for mutual toleration.
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Within a month, however, President John F. Kennedy delivered the speech that led to passage of the Civil Rights Act, invoking a moral imperative for civil rights as well as a legal one.
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This, too, was a safeguard against precedent-setting, they reasoned: His case was singular, and his U.S. government connection conferred a certain plausibility, as well as a moral imperative, to trading for him.
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Sustainability, as Salpini reminds me, has become not just a moral imperative but, in terms of capitalism, a crucial differentiator for brands, especially those that want to reach millennials and Gen Z consumers.
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But like so many other Democrats this year, she came out of the gates framing her bid as a moral imperative: part of a broader effort to push back against President Donald Trump.
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Democrats, meanwhile, have been reticent to agree to a temporary fix that doesn't include a path to citizenship for DACA recipients -- they say a matter of moral imperative as well as political leverage.
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On Monday, Costa Rica's President Carlos Alvarado spoke at an event for leaders of particularly climate-vulnerable countries about his own 6-year-old and the moral imperative to make progress in Madrid.
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Governments worldwide have been wrestling with the question of whether thousands of women like Bint Fatma are conspirators or victims — and whether bringing them home is a moral imperative or a security risk.
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"A handful of leading brands, like NEXT and New Look, demonstrate it is a moral imperative, and commercially viable, to treat refugees with respect," Phil Bloomer, the watchdog's executive director, said in a statement.
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The key is to reframe the issue to engage child advocates — social workers, educators, healthcare experts, even religious leaders, even the courts — to bend the ear of legislators on this social and moral imperative.
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Is a country ever obligated to rescue people when it doesn't have a clear strategic or political interest in doing so, and should the moral imperative of protecting innocents ever override all other concerns?
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And while they serve to burnish the former administration's questionable decision-making and partisan calculus in the Clinton email investigation, this is the point where a moral imperative meets an overwhelming amount of evidence.
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Many academics see contributions to the fund by wealthy countries as a moral imperative, arguing that the developing world is most vulnerable to the effects of climate change but least responsible for causing them.
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Like the "moral imperative" that Ms. Pletka says she shares with Mr. Katulis about the need for a coherent policy to deal with the war in Syria, which has killed an estimated 500,000 people.
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But Mr. Trump has broken with a half-century of bipartisan consensus that supporting freedom was a moral imperative and a security goal, said Larry Diamond of the Hoover Institution, a conservative research group.
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Finally, the moral imperative of missile defense must replace the current narrative of the professional missile defense critics who think American missile defenses are part of some bizarre conspiracy to strike our enemies first.
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But I'm also quite certain that neither the argument nor the menu would exist without those who believe that universal health coverage in America is not just a reachable goal but a moral imperative.
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Those of us who are privileged enough to be elected into public office have the moral imperative to hold the entire prescription drug industry accountable for making insulin affordable for those who need it.
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And, current and former drug corporation executives like current Health & Human Services Secretary Alex Azar are tasked with the moral imperative of prioritizing the value of human life over their paychecks and stock prices.
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If the big-spending, democratic welfare state is really a system of part-time slavery, as Ayn Rand and Senator Paul contend, then beating it back is a moral imperative of the first order.
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The alternate framings are familiar by now: global warming as an economic opportunity, a way to spur technological innovation, a national security threat, a way of reducing local pollutants, a religious or moral imperative.
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The goalposts for what's socially acceptable or politically expedient are continually moved, and it's up to observers to keep providing reminders that they've shifted, and that "status quo" isn't a moral imperative with any weight.
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Supporters believe there is not only a pressing moral imperative to promote gender equality, but an economic one - according to McKinsey, gender equality could add up to $28 trillion to the world's output by 2050.
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Experts say reducing food waste is not only a moral imperative but a way of curbing emissions of planet-warming gases linked to agriculture which accounts for about 20 percent of overall greenhouse gas emissions.
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If they believe that universal health insurance is a moral imperative — as they have since at least Franklin Roosevelt's time — then only a very heavy-handed government program is going to get the job done.
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" Not long after, Yulin Cruz responded via Twitter: "@POTUS It is not that you do not get it; you are incapable of fulfilling the moral imperative to help the people of PR. Shame on you.!
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Moriarty said the Alliance - set to run until 2018 - was ahead of schedule in improving safety at the some 700 factories its 28 members work with in Bangladesh, calling the safety drive a "moral imperative".
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While the White House, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and most of the media declare that a forced and rapid end to the era of fossil fuels is a moral imperative, more sane voices emerge.
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"But we think this could be super helpful even without peer review, and we think there's a moral imperative to do this right now so everyone can see it and judge it," Mr. Singh added.
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" We join the more than 600 university presidents across the U.S. who signed a statement citing DACA as "both a moral imperative and a national necessity," depicting Dreamers as representing "what is best about America.
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We are fed up with the one-sided nature of the relationship we have with credit scoring agencies exploiting our personal data for commercial gain with seemingly no responsibility or moral imperative to protect us.
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Not only is it a moral imperative that Uber develop a helmet solution, like something collapsible or that attaches to the vehicle between rides, but its relationship with local governments will depend on keeping citizens safe.
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But tourism in a wake of a disaster did not appeal to me, not so much because of the dangers but because of the moral imperative to either be helpful or get out of the way.
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The question now is whether we will recognize the scientific and moral imperative that demands we "first do no harm" to children arriving at our borders, or whether we will be complicit in the damage done.
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Jimmy Kimmel recently influenced a heated debate over the moral imperative to provide insurance coverage by revealing his own son's diagnosis of congenital heart disease and spawning the term "the Jimmy Kimmel test" to benchmark coverage.
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Bezos patted Amazon on the back for raising its minimum wage to $15 per hour late last year in the letter, calling it as much of a moral imperative as it was a good business decision.
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"I hope we'll see more leaders like these 40 Catholic institutions commit, because while this decision makes smart financial sense, acting collectively to deliver a better future for everybody is also our moral imperative," she said.
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Noting that Asian cultures are known for their love of nature, he urged them to fight for the future of the earth, echoing the major encyclical he issued in 2015 making environmental protection a moral imperative.
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In recognition of the moral imperative of divesting from private prisons, in December 2015, the University of California divested $21625 million from the country's largest private prison companies (Corrections Corporation of America, GEO Group and G2900S).
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RELATED: Tillerson could face uphill battle on Capitol Hill Promoting human rights has been a pillar of US foreign policy, as -- beyond any moral imperative -- repression often leads to rebellion, which can destabilize countries, regions and trade.
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In this view Catholics, used to confessing and being absolved after each round of sins, tend to run up debts (Schulden, from the same root as Schuld, or "guilt"), whereas Protestants see saving as a moral imperative.
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In a country where the far right has now cemented its place on the political map -- outpacing both the traditional left and right in the last presidential election -- forging a new, collective "us" is a moral imperative.
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With a cleareyed moral imperative, he opposes the Palestinian occupation, repeatedly demands accountability from Israeli leaders for their support of West Bank settlements and rails against use of the Shoah as a pretext for mistreatment of Palestinians.
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It's where I returned from covering the Bosnian War — the 100,000 dead, the 2.2 million displaced — and understood the moral abdication of the bystander and the moral imperative of engagement and decency, that word dear to Camus.
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If the Democrats have a moral imperative to give both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders a full and fair chance to head the ticket, they have an equally compelling duty to nominate a woman as vice president.
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But after Tuesday's court hearing, Tony Serra, Mr. Almena's lawyer, said his client had entered his plea as "a moral imperative to eliminate all of the drama and pain and suffering," according to The East Bay Times.
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In the "Israeli-Palestinian" framing, with all other regional components obscured, an Israeli withdrawal in the West Bank seems like a good idea — "like a real-estate deal," in President Trump's formulation — if not a moral imperative.
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But stopping the activities that make a real difference — flying, driving, eating meat, and having children — is for most people a big sacrifice, and even climate experts disagree about whether they have a moral imperative to do so.
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Founders are: Photo courtesy of Flickr/Thomas Shahan Photo courtesy of Flickr/Thomas Shahan Addressing the ongoing mental health catastrophe in entrepreneurship is a moral imperative, and for wise investors, it should be a function of doing business.
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But the tricky part is balancing the moral imperative to allow large-scale immigration from poor countries into rich ones like the US or the Netherlands, with the desire to improve domestic redistribution through programs like basic income.
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But I don't remember being touched by any such moral imperative when, in cap and gown at graduation ceremonies, I knew that just a few days later my local draft board would surely reclassify me as 1-A.
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The new Strategy, as well as the Women, Peace and Security Act and National Action Plan before it, emphasize that women's rights are not simply a moral imperative, but are central to United States' national security and defense policy.
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"President Aylwin was convinced that it was a moral imperative to confront the legacy of human rights violations," said José Zalaquett, a leading human rights advocate in Chile and a co-author of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report.
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Proponents of Prop C say that it's a moral imperative to help the homeless, and that San Francisco, which has seen some of the nation's strongest economic growth in the past two decades, can afford to pay the price.
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Six of nine brothers and sisters of Representative Paul Gosar, Republican of Arizona, publicly endorsed his Democratic opponent in the midterm elections in videos on Friday, in what one of them said was nothing short of a moral imperative.
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It would be a shame for Collins to have endured such opprobrium in winning key battles, acting on the moral imperative to protect her constituents, only to surrender in the ongoing congressional war upon seniors and those with disabilities.
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To create "non-racist" face recognition, the companies selling it must, yes, address the technical flaws of their systems, but they will also have to exercise a moral imperative not to give the technology to groups operating with racial bias.
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The first sign of a link between Mr Gorsuch's "inviolability-of-human-life" view and his jurisprudence comes in his book's ninth chapter, where he traces the roots of the idea that there is a moral imperative to respect "basic goods".
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The calculation is more complicated for Democrats: act on impeachment as a moral imperative and risk securing Trump's second term — or stand down, and risk the wrath of the progressive wing of the party, and your most enthusiastic voters. Rep.
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"Calling on the House to start impeachment hearings and remove Trump from office isn't a partisan political strategy, it's a moral imperative to protect the foundations of democracy and prove that even the president isn't above the law," he told me.
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It suggests that Trump doesn't really understand the shortcomings of his first statement on Charlottesville and believes this is all just a bow to the news cycle rather than a moral imperative to speak out clearly against hate and evil.
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This is ultimately to everyone's detriment, as better and more comprehensive solutions to complex problems are much more likely to develop when they incorporate diverse experiences and ways of life—that is the moral imperative and practical rationale behind inclusion.
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It doesn't matter how lovely your family, how honorable your work or service, how devout your faith — if you place ideological adherence or economic self interest above the moral imperative to condemn and denounce a demagogue, then you are deplorable.
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" Writing about the sexual abuse allegations against Allen, movie critic Ann Hornaday asked, "How can we possibly tease apart individuals and their actions, and doesn't doing so mean that we're failing our own moral imperative to hold people to account?
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When somebody is in need, when somebody is in dire need, when somebody is in a life or death situation, there's a human, moral imperative to deal with that situation first and then deal with any other situations coming your way.
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"Rob felt a moral imperative to fight injustice and fight oppression and to work to build a better world, and certainly the Rojava revolution has attracted a number of people," Mr. Kuby said in an interview shortly after Mr. Grodt's death.
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Mayor de Blasio has cast his battle to add dozens of homeless shelters across the city as an effort to convince New Yorkers that it is a moral imperative to give homeless people shelters in neighborhoods where they are from.
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It is our moral imperative to support individuals with Alzheimer's and we as a nation have an obligation to care for our citizens as they age and to support them as they struggle to face the challenges of this disease.
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But given that concerns about immigration have clearly brought about the election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote, and the election of right-wing governments in Hungary and Poland, I think that the moral imperative is not to have open borders.
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"This decision recognizes a moral imperative that must be addressed, as institutions place an increasing debt burden on young people who aspire to become physicians," said Dr. Robert I. Grossman, dean of the medical school and chief executive officer of NYU Langone Health.
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"When they go low, we go high" as a moral imperative makes me weary — the other side has been going low, and lower still, for decades, and the moral high ground has begun to feel like a staircase in an Escher drawing.
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Four years ago, when people were kind of laughing at me when they asked me what is the major national security crisis facing America, I said it was climate change and that we have a moral imperative to transform our energy system.
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One is that I think this generation has a moral imperative to solve this generation's problems and that putting this money away to be spent at some indeterminate point in the future — by somebody else with some mission statement — it's just inefficient.
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"This decision recognizes a moral imperative that must be addressed, as institutions place an increasing debt burden on young people who aspire to become physicians," said Robert I. Grossman, dean of the medical school and chief executive officer of N.Y.U. Langone Health.
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The most upsetting thing in basketball semiotics today is the fetishization, at all levels, of rebounding (and, more broadly, defense) as moral imperative—a test of character, the place where effort means more than anything else, the one thing you can't fake.
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While many believe it's an important moral imperative as an American value to reduce poverty and provide aid to those in need, it's also a matter of national security -- a term that the Trump administration has put at the forefront of its rhetoric.
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"As President, Bernie Sanders will boldly embrace the moral imperative of climate change and mobilize the political will necessary for a wholesale transformation of our society, with massive investments in sustainable energy, energy efficiency, and a transformation of our transportation system," his plan says.
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"This is a plea that's been entered into as a moral imperative to eliminate all of the drama and pain and suffering that everyone that touches this case endures," Almana's attorney Tony Serra told reporters after the hearing, according to the East Bay Times.
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" Tillerson did write a brief preface to the report, in which he stated, "standing up for human rights and democracy is not just a moral imperative but is in the best interests of the United States in making the world more stable and secure.
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The first sign of a link between Mr Gorsuch's "inviolability-of-human-life" view and his jurisprudence comes early in his book's ninth chapter where he traces the roots of the idea that there is a "moral imperative" to respect so-called "basic goods".
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Instead, perhaps on this Thanksgiving, American legislators can discontinue the centuries-long tradition of using American Indians and their lands as means to an end, and begin treating them with a moral imperative that respects their rights as people and their sovereignty as tribal nations.
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She should dramatize the moral imperative of ending the destruction of democracy from the Citizens United decision, explain how that decision promotes the evils voters that detest about politics, and propose a clear and powerful agenda of an economy that lifts all American boats.
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Manohla Dargis named the film a Critic's Pick in her review for The New York Times, writing that "while Barbara may just look like she's letting down her defenses, what you witness is the revelation of a moral imperative that is itself profoundly political."
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It's indulging in things we don't tend to think of as indulgent because they don't involve reckless financial splurges (like buying expensive shoes because you deserve them), or life decisions that violate the 2019 moral imperative of wellness (like eating a whole tub of something).
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It's simply this: I have come to believe that using a secure chat app is increasingly a moral imperative, and I have failed utterly and completely to convince enough people in my social network to switch to a third party, end-to-end encrypted chat app.
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"As the battlefield shrinks and the fighting intensifies, efforts to achieve the crucial objective of destroying the Islamic State in its current form ... and the moral imperative of protecting civilian life and property, will inevitably become increasingly imbalanced towards the former," it said in a note Monday.
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As I wrote in an article about my no-spend summer, practicing sustainable habits, such as eliminating food waste and reliance on plastic packaging, isn't just money-friendly, it also feels like a moral imperative for me, so I'd like to buy fewer things in 2020.
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Robert D. Ray, a centrist Republican who served five terms as governor of Iowa and welcomed thousands of Southeast Asian refugees to his state in the 21960s — a politically risky decision he considered a moral imperative — died on Sunday at a care facility in Des Moines.
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Although the absence of language renders animals' subjective experience inaccessible to us, de Waal argues passionately that mounting evidence of their free will makes it unacceptable to demand definitive proof: for him, taking the measure of their wordless consciousness, and wordless pain, is a moral imperative.
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"They're waiting anxiously and will be very grateful to you and to the American people if you continue to step up to the moral imperative that you've taken on all over the world to help those in need," Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz told CNN on Friday.
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" AND AT 10:51 A.M. -- SAN JUAN'S MAYOR ALSO FIRES BACK: San Juan, Puerto Rico mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz tweeted back: "It is not that you do not get it; you are incapable of fulfilling the moral imperative to help the people of PR. Shame on you!
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Providing those living in rural areas with the skills and opportunities they need not only to survive but thrive in today's rapidly changing world of work is both an economic and moral imperative — and one that will require embracing new ways of learning, training and working.
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But the only thing more disingenuous than Oscar De La Hoya pretending to give a shit about the sanctity of his sport beyond his direct financial advancement is drumming up a false moral imperative for his customers to proliferate as though they're acolytes preaching some higher gospel.
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The technical flash point for this involves an anti-Trump conservative outlet, the Bulwark, sending a pro-choice liberal to CPAC and the tweets she sent from that event, a few days after McKay Coppins wrote about the Bulwark, which sees a moral imperative to shame Trump backers.
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Bravo to Star Trek: Discovery for acknowledging what men like Rapp and Crews already know, and that the rest of us have a moral imperative to recognize: sexual abuse can happen to anyone, even strong, heroic men; that it isn't their fault, and perhaps most importantly, they aren't alone.
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Mr Ng comes at the question from a different angle, suggesting that AI researchers have a moral imperative to build self-driving cars as quickly as possible in order to save lives: most of the 3,000 people who die in car accidents every day are victims of driver error.
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Negroponte articulated very well the exigency of the situation we face, the implications for homeland and global security, and even the moral imperative that somehow seems to get lost in the shuffle: Are we or are we not going to do what it takes to feed the world's people?
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The twisted, disturbing intimacy that Butler depicts between master and slave in the antebellum South is gone; in its place is a numbing bureaucracy that allows every party to avoid recognizing their complicity in the system, if they wish — and the moral imperative to recognize your own complicity anyway.
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She is optimistic that men are capable of acting not only out of self-interest — though it's true, more female colleagues will make them richer — but out of the same moral imperative that once led privileged white men to abolish slavery and to "give" women the right to vote.
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But Mr. Cook and Mr. Koch have written an op-ed in the WaPo imploring Congress to give "dreamers" — the young immigrants at the center of a fight over illegal immigration — a path to staying in the U.S. From the piece: This is a political, economic and moral imperative.
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But many conservatives and Republicans believe that that's entirely unfair — not necessarily because Trump is actually deeply sensitive to the issues facing racial and ethnic minorities, but because Democrats are, in their view, just as bad, and are calling out Trump's racism not out of moral imperative, but pure politics.
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In an op-ed published by The Washington Post on Thursday, Cook and Koch argued that the U.S. "is at its best" when it embraces diversity, adding that Congress has a "moral imperative" to grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of "dreamers" -- immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
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No moral imperative is motivating the Koch's hardline on the Obamacare repeal-and-replace; they didn't want the American Health Care Act or "Trumpcare" voted down out of concern for the criminogenic effects of causing 24 million people (according to the most recent Congressional Budget Office estimate) to lose health insurance.
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Politics isn't physics, but a governing Republican philosophy that sees it as a moral imperative to slash the budgets of social programs that benefit mainly older and working-class white people is bound, sooner or later, to drive a party of mainly older and working-class white people off a cliff.
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In "One Another's Equals: The Basis of Human Equality," Jeremy Waldron, a professor of philosophy at New York University School of Law, argues that Western thought has been rooted in the moral imperative that people be treated and respected as equals, whatever disparities may exist between them in wealth or talent.
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Simply put, while Lyndon Johnson and other architects of Great Society reforms may have sought to create a "racially just and inclusive nation," as Newkirk puts it, the actual measurable successes of those programs weren't the result of a "moral imperative" so much as they were the result of public policy.
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In emotional debate on Thursday, less than a week after President Trump and Republicans in Congress pulled legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Kansas House members who support Medicaid expansion framed the issue as a moral imperative that could save lives and stave off hospital closings in beleaguered towns.
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As in other parts of the world — Cataluña and Comunidad Vasca of Spain, for example — most pro-independence groups in Puerto Rico have argued that independence is a moral imperative, a sacred destiny that is even above the sovereignty of the citizens and the will of the majority in a democracy.
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" She characterized speaking out against the occupation as a "moral imperative," but added: "Casting the movement for Jewish self-determination as a racist, Western colonialist enterprise, rather than a liberation movement for a minority population subject to generations of pogroms, exile, discrimination and ultimately genocide, is self-serving historical revisionism.
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Her goal in doing publishing these—which she referred to using epithets like "Letters from Harassed Mothers" and "Letters Showing the Dilemma Faced by Many Mothers"—was to highlight the moral imperative of legalizing birth control, which, she argued, could prevent such pregnancies and decrease the number of illegal abortions in the country.
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"Any serious Democratic candidate must signal that mustering the full force of the U.S. government and economy to respond to the climate crisis is not only a moral imperative but a top priority in line with universal healthcare, a fair minimum wage, anti-corruption, criminal justice reform, and voting rights," they wrote.
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"It's wonderful that the divestment people have built up so much momentum among people who are not shareholders anyway and don't plan to be," said Sister Daly, the lead filer of a shareholder resolution calling for Exxon Mobil to acknowledge the moral imperative to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
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To the Editor: With important museums and institutions rightly refusing to accept donations from the Sacklers, the family has the opportunity, the means and the moral imperative to donate their ill-gotten funds to treatment and recovery centers that serve the obscenely large numbers of people whose lives have been destroyed by the opioid crisis.
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"Parks and Rec" can be fantastically funny (and it has a big heart), but as I watched I was often reminded that many people glorify ideas like "public service"—a preposterous term that treats politics as if it were a sacrifice without pay, power, or prestige—and "doing something" as a moral imperative no matter how politicians get it done.
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Military and foreign policy officials pressed for resettling more refugees as a national security and moral imperative, while other top officials, led by Stephen Miller, his top policy adviser, and backed by John F. Kelly, his chief of staff and former secretary of homeland security, advocated slashing the number to as low as 15,000 based on concerns about cost and safety.
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In other words, while the United States government looks for the exits in countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, the moral imperative to extricate loyal friends from our conflicts is in danger of being ignored in favor of curbing immigration at home — an ethical disaster, signaling an American lack of trustworthiness that would plague American national security efforts for decades.
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Waldron warns that wide inequalities of income and wealth can erode this moral imperative because they make it harder to make the mental leap it requires: The poor may come to seem so different from the privileged and prosperous that the well-off cannot understand a moral principle that assigns equal value to the living of a human life as such.
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It is their place to protect the health of the consumers whose good will they rely on — not to mention the citizens whose taxes bailed some automakers out during the recent recession that might have put them out of business This is not a question for political or legal wrangling; it is a question of American public health and international environmental preservation and therefore a moral imperative.
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Aside from the moral imperative of defending a child's right to be a child, when we allow children to go hungry, to miss out on an education, to live with their basic needs unmet, we lose a generation of adults whose hard work could drive economic growth, whose intelligence could improve our communities, and whose creativity could dream up the new ideas that drive progress.
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I listened to the unlikely pairing of Van Jones of #cut2628 and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich explain that, while the fiscal waste of mass incarceration attracted many conservatives to the issue of reform, many on the right were drawn to justice reform by its moral imperative to rehabilitate and re-assimilate our fellow Americans as they exited prisons or courtrooms with felony convictions.
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Recent takes on the alcohol-free bar in America have tended to follow a similar model in that they are attached to a broader movement or moral imperative; Canticles Lounge, for example, a sober lounge in Bedford-Stuyvesant, is affiliated with the nearby Antioch Baptist Church, though it maintains it is open to all, and is headed by the church's Reverend (I interviewed him about it at the time for the Brooklyn Paper).
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The steady loss of Democratic support in the white working class, culminating in Trump's Electoral College victory on the backs of these white voters, must inevitably send a loud and clear signal to the Democratic elite: The more the party abandons the moral imperative to represent the interests of the less well off of all races and ethnicities, the more it risks a repetition of the electoral disaster of 2016 in 2018, 2020 and beyond.
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Groups like the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment, as well as New York State and City officials, recently presented at Exxon Mobil's annual shareholder meeting proposals that would require the company to assess the business risks of meeting the Paris climate goals and to "acknowledge the moral imperative" to keep global temperatures from rising by more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) since the start of the industrial era; they also helped to pass a resolution giving shareholders greater say in corporate governance.
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I'm in the developing world minimum three times a year now, and I'm out in slums, in townships, in the rural area, and when you see a needless death of a woman or a child because she literally just didn't have a very inexpensive tool that we not only believe in, we use in the United States — more than 93 percent of married Catholic women report using contraceptives — the moral imperative is that we give these women what we believe in and actually use.
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A flurry of recent articles have made this case: The Huffington Post says, "Re-Classifying Dogs as Sentient Beings: It's Time, America, It's Time"; "Dogs are people too," wrote Gregory Berns, a professor of neuroeconomics who scanned conducted MRI scans of dogs' brains, in The New York Times; "If Canis lupus familiaris can be shown to have emotions, and a level of sentience comparable to that of a human child, there is a moral imperative to reassess how they are treated under law," writer Susan McDonald argued in The Guardian.
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