How To Use Imperative In A Sentence

Its total destruction is not a moral imperative for the human race. Times, Sunday Times
It was imperative that the crew steering the boat under sail avoided the ice. Times, Sunday Times
All the issues of survival that we have discussed above must be subordinated to this ultimate imperative.
It is easy to see religious motivations here in terms of imperatives to care for the unfortunate; 'almsgiving' is undoubtedly a strong theme in most faith traditions. New Perspectives on Faith and Development
It is imperative that couples should communicate in order to know the root of the conflict.

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Of course, the imperative to lend interest-free isn't unique to Jews. When Religion Restricts Lending
If the color you purchased doesn't turn out the way you intended, it's imperative that you consult an experienced colorist in order to get it retouched.
That the two imperatives may be contradictory seems not to occur. Times, Sunday Times
By all means use this construction if it's what you prefer but it's purely a stylistic preference and not a grammatical imperative. Times, Sunday Times
The language of brotherly love was not so easy to speak as he had supposed and was woefully short of imperatives. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
Aside from the inheritance proper, a will could contain legacies whereby things were bequeathed by a single title and by express words; they could be imperative or precative. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
It is an imperative selection to transform the outdate teaching perception and mode and to explore the new ways in the integrate of the information resources and Chinese courses.
Thus Helen of Troy may have been a bewitching casus belli — and her elopement with Paris may have led to the deaths of thousands — but in fact she was acting with aret é ; she showed herself to be in close attunement with Aphrodite, who demanded an obedience not only to herself but to the imperatives of the heart. The Gods Return
The imperative to move quickly past fossil fuels to clean energies - wind, solar and biomass - and conservation measures such as retrofitting homes, was noted by those reporting that 2009 and 2010 have been the hottest years on record, and Boulder and Jefferson County (where Coors operates a coal-fired plant) have earned an "F" grade for ozone levels in recent years. Michele Swenson: The Urgency of Toxic Coal Ash Regulation and the Move to Clean Energy
Another influential kind of noncognitivism called “prescriptivism” claims that this sentence is really a veiled command whose true meaning should be captured using the imperative mood: “Don't steal!” Moral Anti-Realism
The reverse case, with an imperative followed by a declarative, is also easy to illustrate, because of this construction.
The high incidence of nominalization in the CMA code completes the message of authority given by the imperative mode and its deontological orientation.
This was coupled with a political imperative to appease employers. Times, Sunday Times
This imperative is followed by an indicative: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
It is imperative you be shielded from that criticism by the very mechanism of providing this conduit for those feelings.
Furthermore, there is an emerging tension between professional aspirations and managerial imperatives.
He is also empassioned about the case for greater justice in trade - despite the recession, arguing that while times may be tough in the UK, these farmers are living in absolute poverty which it is our moral imperative to address. Fairtrade gets huge boost from The Co-operative's new ethical plan
And international response to financial crises is an imperative to limit the contagion of panic and financial losses.
The intramural squabbling and partisan agendas of the past thirty-five years have often inhibited the discerning engagement with the culture that is imperative for a community of disciples called to be salt and light.
Given the imperative of global competition and the continued flow of efficiency gains from past investments in technology, the efficiency trend will not go into reverse.
Yet it unequivocally states that the People "Shall not" (imperative) "coerce" the government, without defining what form such "coercion" takes. Please sign this open letter to Moveon.org et al re. petitions to topple The Thought Crimes Bill
Given lower sales forecasts, protecting margin is now the business imperative to maintain profits and cash. Times, Sunday Times
It is imperative for that meeting to launch a new round of multilateral trade negotiations.
Strict economy was imperative during the days which followed and it became no uncommon occurrence for Andy P. Symes to whisk Augusta into a caravansera where the gentlemen patrons ate large, filling plates of griddle cakes with their hats on. The Lady Doc
It is imperative that we make a quick decision.
All virtue is contained in autonomy, all vice in its absence, and all morality is summarized in the imperatives that guide the will.
With her striking beauty, it became imperative for her to learn how to frown and look unfriendly when she went outside. Times, Sunday Times
This paper analyzed errors and their origins in Timber Volume Table(TVT) of Guizhou Province and deemed it imperative to revise TVT.
Wired into the way we are forced to live there are silent imperatives, unspoken propositions about the world.
Instead of a damning critique he offers redemption through the invocation of a moral imperative.
Such ideas might seem outlandish but finding a remedy for unsustainable sovereign borrowing is not just a Greek imperative. Times, Sunday Times
The circumstances of modern life can give rise to the false belief that a culture full of electronics and multitasking imperatives creates the disorder.
From these imperatives spring the iconographies and situations that animate this suite: the large sitting figure, the figure standing with its arms akimbo, the man lost in a downpour.
Due to the size, weight and cost of large buildings, testing the substructure's ability to carry the superstructure, becomes imperative.
Although he lacks the historical context to articulate Kant's Categorical Moral Imperative, he describes a Supreme Being for whom something akin to this axiom is the ultimate measure of a man, a God who believes that one's ethical duty is to acquire and exercise wisdom, to evaluate and constantly re-evaluate one's beliefs -- including what one's ethical duty is -- by applying the utmost objectivity to one's own preconceptions and prejudices. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART TWO
He was often accused of political intractability, a lack of imperativeness, too great a readiness to take clairvoyants seriously, and excessive slyness.
This is specially true of the animus and anima, for their quest for completion is rendered more imperative by the nagging insistence of sexual desire.
Adorno argues that the belief that true thinking may simply be equated with correct predicative thinking both reflects and enables the imperative to a universal exchangeability of objects within organised economic life.
What would be accepted as evidence if not disease, madness, misery, irrationality, frustration, criminality and sickness, that a tragic disparateness now exists between the needs of human beings and the imperatives of society. Rogue Of Gor
First, we see the imperative to view this work in cycles with multiple points of entry and modes of engagement.
It is therefore imperative that the procedures for the abatement of malodours are very effective.
To beg for votes, as if they were alms or broken victuals, is a form of mendicancy which is incompatible with common self-respect, and yet it is a self-abasement which thirty years ago custom imperatively demanded. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography
But when there is no pressing military or colonial imperative, the developed world loses interest in tropical diseases.
The issue is then to discern the categorical imperatives of a federative government, such as natural and civil rights.
So, "credentialism" today aka the BA imperative, does not work well for most people. Anya Kamenetz: Credentialism and Higher Ed
While it is imperative to have an overarching policy framework that comprehends the fundamental factors shaping our world, in practice, foreign policy typically is local.
Board diversity is a business imperative--it is multigenerational, multinational, multicultural and multiregional. What Women Really Want Is A Meritocracy
The human desire for novelty is twinned with an equally imperative desire for continuity.
After a hideaway chat with Nixon, his consiglieri, Chuck Colson, concluded that it was imperative "to stop Anderson at all costs. The Best of Enemies
But they are thrown together by circumstance, of the imperative to experience every moment as if it were their last, which it might well be.
Concepts of strategy introduce consideration of market forces, environmental pressures, and organizational imperatives which form the backdrop for visionary initiatives.
The most successful modern reconciler of faith and the imperatives of modern life, King Hussein of Jordan, lamentably died not long ago.
Their nostalgia for allegedly better times and places vies with the imperative to redeem the present. The Times Literary Supplement
In your individual life, you have infinite opportunity to act in concert with the karmic imperatives of your soul.
The term for what he favors is autecology, embracing an imperative to learn the ways of the creature itself, and the immediate relationships that connect it to its place, before drawing conclusions about the overall structure of the community to which the creature belongs. The Song of The Dodo
Kant's categorical imperative test, for example, holds that universalizability is the distinguishing feature of correct moral judgments, and that a judgment is universalizable if and only if it can, without contradiction, be willed as a universal practical law Impartiality
Let no man's greatness be a bar to full utterance; but let temperance and charity -- duties peculiarly imperative when uttering derogatory truth -- be especially observed towards a resplendent suffering brother like Coleridge, suffering from his own weakness, but on that very account entitled to a tenderer consideration from those who are themselves endowed to feel and claim something more than common human affinity with a nature so large and so susceptive. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
When Anglicans and Presbyterians used direct imperatives, they have a preference for the verbs ‘help’ and ‘teach’.
Maybe financial imperatives hurried things along. Times, Sunday Times
Deep down inside, staying alive (a biological imperative) took precedence over social proscriptions against cannibalism.
It can take anywhere from four to eight hours to smoke meat or poultry, so it's imperative to use thermometers to monitor temperatures.
It is that Ireland needs to expand its view of the European Union membership beyond the basic economic imperatives.
Functional programming gives you new, different building blocks to achieve the same goals that imperative languages accomplish with other mechanisms.
By the 1980s, however, financial imperatives led to the closure and demolition of much of Glasgow's cutting-edge church estate.
Law enforcement officers come ‘under pressure to perform quickly… the imperative is simply to be seen to be tough on crime.’
The care of the publique must oversway all private interests, for it is a true rule that perticuler estates cannot subsist in the ruinue of the publique." sic It's very difficult to hear the arguments against taxing the inordinately wealthy as reflecting anything of that evangelical sentiment and social imperative. Frank G. Kirkpatrick: Searching For The Common Good In Political Discourse
However when a tier of our democratic system does not work well it is imperative to improve it not abolish it.
It is imperative that the needle be positioned correctly so the recurrent laryngeal and phrenic nerves are not infiltrated with medication.
Avoiding the promotion of political and constitutional reform on the basis of short-term expediency is imperative. Times, Sunday Times
So it is imperative for all of us, in one way or another, to prod and encourage both partners to sit down.
It was imperative that the community pulled together and co-operated in the future development of the area.
Although both believe that taking multiple wives is a religious imperative, the number of wives each is alleged to have and the time period of the violations are different. Accused polygamist looking for legal aid from B.C.
The author holds that the existentialist conception of individuality, with its stress on 'creative responsibility', implies an imperative for each of us to recognise the individuality of others and to respect it.
Apart from an absolute moral imperative, trends such as outsourcing and just-in-time production compel the international community to make sure that no part of the world suffers disproportionately.
Brumby horses being one of the problems of the run, and the destruction of brumby stallions imperative, as the nigger-hunt was apparently off, the brumby mob proved too enticing to be passed by, and for an hour and more it kept us busy, the Maluka and Dan being equally "set on getting a stallion or two. We of the Never-Never
With statistics like these, it is imperative that nurses educate their patients regarding cancer prevention, self-examination, early warning signs, and actions to take.
If there are no absolutes or eternal values, then the moral imperative behind such movements evaporates into thin air.
The last successful American third party, the Republicans, had a noble cause in abolition and the dominant political imperative in American history: Union, and they elected several candidates to statewide office before Lincoln (their second Presidential nominee) won the White House. Matthew Yglesias » Why Two Parties?
What's needed in this political setting, say forum participants, is a moral imperative that trumps sheer economic concerns.
Lazy Ways to Make a Living is the unputdownable story of Rose, an academic, who resigned from her university post because the Dean would not forgive her campaign for the use of the imperative in the department's mission statement.
The subject is a historically contingent effect, but to see ourselves as purely victims of historical and spatial imperatives is to limit our understanding of what it is to be human.
The Founders could not have imagined how technology and mass media could hypnotize a free people, and how the imperative to buy as much of that juju as you can would throw the whole system they created out of whack. Marty Kaplan: Occupy K Street
The fact that some animal research is conducted in the name of curing human disease makes it more—not less—imperative that it be done in the most responsible way and that opportunities to develop more innovative methods are seized, for the sake of people and animals. We've Always Condemned Violence
It is therefore imperative that the procedures for the abatement of malodours are very effective.
Had railroad facilities been abundant a multitude of small cultivators might have shipped their cane to central mills for manufacture, but as things were the weight and the perishableness of the cane made milling within the reach of easy cartage imperative. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
He argues that perhaps the strongest single drive in human beings is what he calls the paranormal belief imperative. Debunking Christianity
It may sound simple enough, but familiarity with the gear and proficiency in these basic skills is imperative when you are on top of a mountain in a howling gale.
There is also an apparently contradictory but equally strong behavioural imperative, which says that eating in groups is competitive, and that you need to protect your stash.
The collapse of the wall made it imperative to keep the water out by some other means.
as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative
Programming languages can be categorized in a number of ways: imperative, applicative, logic-based, problem-oriented, etc. Archive 2007-09-01
Hence, it's imperative that a clear position be given to undergraduate comparative literature teaching.
A broad and balanced education is an imperative for raising standards.
The authors concluded that it was imperative that current road safety programmes, including random breath testing, be fully implemented.
The detail is rendered so well that this big dolls' house goes well beyond the girly play imperative. Times, Sunday Times
So they're an imperative part of our community fabric.
This imperative of determination, of collective commitment, becomes the dominant theme in the conversation. Times, Sunday Times
Gaining colonies was thus not solely a matter of prestige or status but was regarded as an economic imperative for Germany.
This was an organizational imperative made necessary by the ever larger armies fielded by continental military systems during the 19th century.
Unless the real recipient of the foundation's beneficence is capitalism itself, which will now teach even poets a good lesson in the imperatives of market discipline? Poetry
There's no mention of important ethical notions such as the distinction between hypothetical and categorical imperatives (crucial to much of what goes on in the book), or the criterion of universalisability.
But we could not prove independently that there are practical propositions which command categorically, nor can it be proved in this section; one thing, however, could be done, namely, to indicate in the imperative itself, by some determinate expression, that in the case of volition from duty all interest is renounced, which is the specific criterion of categorical as distinguished from hypothetical imperatives. SECOND SECTION
By the end of that year, it became imperative to adopt a disguise to hide my blonde hair and blue eyes. Times, Sunday Times
All three believe it is imperative that a candidate from this region is on the party ticket come the next General Election.
We cannot prove that this practical rule is an imperative, i.e., that the will of every rational being is necessarily bound to it as a condition, by a mere analysis of the conceptions which occur in it, since it is a synthetical proposition; we must advance beyond the cognition of the objects to a critical examination of the subject, that is, of the pure practical reason, for this synthetic proposition which commands apodeictically must be capable of being cognized wholly a priori. SECOND SECTION
Passionate mutual love does not outweigh the imperatives of the class structure as they are presented in the novel.
Using allylic alcohol removes that chemical imperative for a company to make up their solutions and make the films very quickly. Undefined
Once clearance has been authorized, it is imperative to receive proper instruction from a certified exercise professional.
During a high-speed chase on a flat surface, it is imperative to work that gearshift hard and often - even with an automatic transmission.
It is also imperative that all drives in your library are running on the same microcode to eliminate any cross-programming issues.
The rise of the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century crystallized the intellectual and political imperatives of evolutionary biology.
Its binary imperatives constantly contradict each other, so that it is neither funny nor exciting. Times, Sunday Times
Of course military units must sometimes merge or be disbanded, as circumstances dictate; on this occasion, however, there is no such imperative.
To be gripped by one great integrating, imperative concern or desire is like monotheism - worship of one divinity.
However, she adds, it is imperative for companies to formalize telework policies and train managers in handling ‘invisible’ employees.
It is clearly imperative to arrive at a correct diagnosis of the origins of involuntary unemployment.
She has expressed her demand for action in a declarative form, rather than encode it in the more direct imperative form.
The rise of the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century crystallized the intellectual and political imperatives of evolutionary biology.
Sadness converges into "Sweet," and the plaintive note of longing in the voice of the suppliant is inseparable from the persistent imperative in the reiterated "Be thou. Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
ABDUL SATTAR, PAKISTANI FOREIGN MINISTER: The Pakistani delegation -- at a high level -- will be conveying to the Taliban government of Afghanistan the imperative of compliance with security council resolutions, both those that have been adopted in the past and the one that was adopted on the twelfth of September. CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2001
How to establish an effective legal system of protecting the vulnerable groups is imperativeness in front of us.
It is imperative for your recovery to continue the treatment for at least two months.
In business, a prompt reply is imperative.
He said: 'It is imperative we regroup quickly. The Sun
At an opposite extreme, Kant's categorical imperative has been taken to generate an approach to practical reasoning (via a “typic of practical judgment”) that is distinctive from other practical reasoning both in the range of considerations it addresses and its structure (Nell 1975). Moral Reasoning
Indeed, I think the duty he owes to his posterity, imperatively calls on him to break the thraldom which is keeping him and his race low and stationary in the scale of being. Jamie Parker, the Fugitive
Come as intellectual economy, company finance affairs shows more and more apparent inelasticity, financial innovation is imperative.
In English the indicative mood is used to make factual statements, the subjunctive mood to indicate doubt or unlikelihood, and the imperative mood to express a command.
A mutual fecundation of cultures is a human imperative of our times.
But then there will be an imperative demand for the local authorities to invest in skilled manpower.
According to Kant, only autonomous legislation can yield a categorical imperative; whereas heteronomous legislation can yield only hypothetical imperatives. Kant and Hume on Morality
Illness, death and the cost of hip fractures make prevention imperative.
In any case, this tension between the indicative and the imperative may lead us to a fruitful discussion on the main theme of our deliberations during this conference.
The rampant smuggling once again shows how imperative and urgent it is now to bring domestic fuel prices closer to international levels.
Vehicles overtook on both sides at high speed, making mirrors virtually superfluous and frequent shoulder checks imperative. Times, Sunday Times
It directed the traffic of history in obedience to political imperatives. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
Therefore, it is imperative to prevent the fight for freedom and peace, dignity and justice being hijacked by the double dealers and slick saboteurs.
This imperative will often be combined with a defensive assumption that the arguer is only exercising linguistic fluency in a hostile attempt to remind the anti-intellectual of their inferior articulacy. Archive 2009-03-01
With her striking beauty, it became imperative for her to learn how to frown and look unfriendly when she went outside. Times, Sunday Times
I was therefore already familiar with the categorical imperative, not least in Auden's rather fine clerihew: Free Software and the Categorical Imperative
In any given situation some of these imperatives will be more vital than others.
It is unforgivable - and it is absolutely imperative that we make speedy restitution to the victims of the cover-ups. Times, Sunday Times
The passive voice gives a sense of detached and objective authority that, in contrast to the imperative mode, is expressive of neutrality.
It was imperative that he act as naturally as possible.
Thus, it is imperative that health communication scholars focus their efforts on adolescent patient-physician communication.
‘It is imperative that you stockpile a large hoard of munchable treats,’ she says.
Here, as elsewhere, Coriden notes the tension between the roots of the canons in Roman law and a more recent desire to highlight their connection to the imperatives of the gospel life.
Social and legal regimes of domination and suppression organize to support production imperatives with gratification of sexual desire and the reproduction of labor.
It is therefore imperative that your staff members know how they are being described and pictured.
The use of family exercises and homework assignments is imperative in enacting permanent change.
He reasoned that the real imperative was to keep the body temperature low, and that there was a better way to do it: supersaturate with large intakes of fluid and soak running clothes just before the start, then douse oneself thoroughly with water at every aid station and at every other opportunity as well. QUALITY IS PERSONAL
To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together. Armchair Generals To The Rescue
The practices of exclusive other-worldly salvation religions did not disappear with modernity, despite early Enlightenment imperatives, and have not disappeared so far despite recent globalization.
I feel it is imperative the Government provides adequate laws to empower local authorities to provide council tax payers with peace and quiet.
The imperative now is to draw up a treaty to prevent such disasters ever happening again.
It is imperative that companies understand their real costs when estimating a job.
Therefore it is imperative to study environmental trade barrier and break through the barrier.
There is a strong political imperative behind this veto. Times, Sunday Times
It is imperative for your recovery to continue the treatment for at least two months.
It is imperative to reorient the German political model more firmly toward the middle classes, the active, relatively well-educated and well-situated majority.
The PSNI is the most important organisation in Northern Ireland, which is why it is imperative it gets the money it needs to effect a valuable service to the community. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
Therefore, it was imperative Dutch traders find new and lucrative markets to bolster their economy and provide the funds needed to continue the war against Spain.
Five days later, the hierarchy issued an episcopal letter that reiterated the imperative for Catholics to embrace democracy and reject electoral fraud.
Just recently Sandra at Bookworld (otherwise a nice, thoughful litblog) opined that she had contracted "Bloom Syndrome," a "condition in which the sufferer is unable to read any work of literature unless it is deemed Significant by Harold Bloom and which often results in the reader losing the will to live/read, crushed under the weight of canonical imperatives. Principles of Literary Criticism
With much sapience, he ruled that the categorical imperative of the situation was that charity begins at home and the guilty party must pay for his own beer that evening.
The Ethical Werewolf: Rules, imperatives, and noncognitivism Rules, imperatives, and noncognitivism
Not only would the idea of endangering the life of a human being have been horrible to him, but the sanctity of an oath was imperative to him. Phineas Redux
The language of brotherly love was not so easy to speak as he had supposed and was woefully short of imperatives. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
When a manager picks a team he answers to only one imperative. Times, Sunday Times
It is imperative that each side branch of the saphenous vein be identified and bleeding be controlled before division.
But we could not prove independently that there are practical propositions which command categorically, nor can it be proved in this section; one thing however could be done, namely, to indicate in the imperative itself by some determinate expression, that in the case of volition from duty all interest is renounced, which is the specific criterion of categorical as distinguished from hypothetical imperatives. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Second Section: Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to the Metaphysic of Morals.
It was imperative to get into the sheltered bays near to the mountains as soon as possible where we might find some respite from the impending storm, so we pressed on relentlessly for another hour or so.
Apartheid does literally mean "apartness" in Afrikaans, and its creators and implementors in the old South Africa instituted it because they believed the non-white population of that country was intrinsically inferior on the individual and collective levels - and they furthermore believed in a theological imperative for that separation. Joshua Treviño: obiter dictum.
The French word vive is the imperative form of the verb vivre, “to live,” and means “live!” or “long live,” as in “Long live frizzy hair!” No Uncertain Terms
The only comfort I get out of the whole thing is that imperative necessity must have been driving my little darling -- or she would not put up with any of these things for a moment, and would have given her _demission_ at the same time as she wrote. Man and Maid
And all declarations and expressions of the mind concerning future actions and omissions, are either promissive, as I will do, or not do; or provisive, as for example, If this be done or not done, this will follow; or imperative, as Do this, or do it not. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
For anyone committed to human progress it is imperative to launch a counter-attack against growth scepticism.
He was often accused of political intractability, a lack of imperativeness, too great a readiness to take clairvoyants seriously, and excessive slyness.
Meanwhile, at the center of children's little pulsing innervated kernels is the phylogenetic imperative encoded in their DNA to grow, to expand, to self-organize, to learn, to exercise the autonomy that defines them as organisms. Teaching Children to Hate School
Change the institutional imperatives that govern their lives and they will change.
In most ways nothing could be further away from village Bengal than the imperatives of an international standard modern hotel.
If Umno leaders are really sincere enough in wanting to have peace with Pakatan Rakyat in order for both the Umno leaders and Pakatan Rakyat leaders to spare more time for focusing their attention and concentrating their effort and financial resources in solving many imperative problems on hands, then Umno leaders should honour the contractual obligations as required by the Federal Constitution for the Federal Government to disburse the financial allocations which are due to be paid by the Federal Government to the State Governments under the administration of Pakatan Rakyat, namely Kedah, Kelantan, Penang and Selangor, and also Perak. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
What the brand management system should have brought, but indeed has not yet delivered, is the imperative to be more competitive.
Much as the categorical imperative is sometimes associated with a form of 'rigorism' connected with Kant's Prussian upbringing, it can hardly be said to tie down to agent to precise forms of action. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
This fierce and buccaneerish person summoned the dozing hostler in a coarse, imperative voice, flung him the reins, sprang from his seat, and assisted his companion to alight. The Redemption of David Corson
They have become an imperative for survival. Times, Sunday Times
Just as it's essential to share protocols when designing software systems, sharing the format in which you send the data is imperative to inter-firm communication.
It can be subclassed to provide user-defined SQL functions in an imperative style, including with pre-established behaviors. Softpedia - Windows - All
Think Back to English Class - This may seem like a very obvious thing to do, but making sure your grammar and spelling errors are corrected is imperative to having your resume looked upon. Five Tips to Keep Your Resume Away From the Trash | myFiveBest
It is imperative that you do not disturb the meat layer which has formed at the top of the soup. 6.
In these cases we have what Jakobson calls the conative function, what other linguists refer to as the appellative, imperative or directive function. Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2)
Nor, in her view, did this do much to debase truth-telling as an imperative. DEATH OF A NYMPH
The economic and moral imperative for action is too urgent. Times, Sunday Times
On that view, since basic self-knowledge is more certain than perceptual knowledge, it is more imperative that one be master of all its enabling conditions.
Relatively recently, the imperative was for restraint and moderation in sexual matters; now it is for more and better sexual gratification.

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