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World Athletics said allowing the athletes to transfer their nationality "would impinge upon and compromise the imperatives underlying the World Athletics eligibility rules and transfer of allegiance regulations".

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Margulies explains how, when we allow obscure legal language to overshadow moral imperatives, we can end up in very dark places.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2026

"If they're not, how do we make sure that they are so that we can try to balance the commercial imperatives versus the performance?"

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

Here are three imperatives shaping the new understanding between the U.S. and Europe:

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

The imperatives of their collaboration, plus the need to present a united front against the Federalists, took precedence over their incompatible notions of where sovereignty resided in the American republic.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis