Sentence examples for As an imperative from inspiring English sources

"I see it as an imperative," said Leon Codron, chief executive of Singapore Petroleum.

I've taken that as an imperative to not pull any punches.

Most Kenyans regard matatus as an imperative public service and a showcase for local culture.

Even the government no longer sees 8% annual growth as an imperative.

But the complex identity that Ellison claimed as an individual birthright Baldwin held as an imperative of American survival.

But it's worth remembering that, in the same play, the word also appears as an imperative: listen.

Jim Donovan and Todd Buchholz saw law school as an imperative step on the road to a successful business career.

The effect of sensor distance as an imperative parameter in variation of classification boundaries could be quantified.

Mr. Alessandrini does not deny nastiness as an imperative for this sort of humor to work; it's meanness that he abhors.

Ellroy has got to be the only writer who still uses "dig" as an imperative, and he's only partly camping it up when he does so.

Khashoggi, who was an occasional rival of Kassar's, once defended lavish living as an imperative of the arms trade, observing, "Flowers and light attract nightingales and butterflies".