Sentence examples for Overriding imperative from inspiring English sources

Paradoxically, this process of marginalization provided deaf artists with an "overriding imperative to demonstrate the 'normality' of their perceptions and their re-presentation in art" (p. 99).

Yet safety would seem an overriding imperative to insist there was a change of start time.

In both cases, despite talk of "victory," the overriding imperative became simply to avoid defeat.

An overriding imperative in the United States, he says, should be to avert a drastic economic slowdown.

But there are no quick fixes and no right answers, beyond the overriding imperative of political cohesion.

Where issues of equity and economic efficiency are seen to clash, the overriding imperative is economic growth.

This is Franzen's self-mocking acknowledgment that not even the greatest literature can save us from ourselves, because nothing finally can override the imperative to be free.

Non-monotonic learning mechanisms are cognitive processes that enable humans to suppress their experience and override its imperative for actions (p.21).

For example, under the Habitats Directive plans or projects adversely affecting a European site are only allowed if there are no feasible alternatives, there are imperative reasons of overriding public interest (IROPI) and the integrity of the Natura 2000 network is maintained.

In the event of a negative assessment, the authorities must consider possible alternatives and, if there are none, state the imperative reasons for overriding public interest and further take compensatory measures (Article 6 paragraph 4).

"I am saying a future Conservative government would no longer subsidise onshore wind and have a proper system in the planning system so that local views are paramount, rather than being overridden by national imperatives.