Sentence examples for competing imperatives from inspiring English sources

The muddle is understandable, deriving as it does from two competing imperatives.

Running through the American ambivalence toward such meetings are competing imperatives.

To give good weight, a diamond cutter must reconcile competing imperatives.

How can an author navigate the competing imperatives of art, commerce and the public in the Facebook age?

There are always two competing imperatives at play in the reporting of an incident in which people have been killed or injured.

As they balance these competing imperatives, Republicans said they planned to move deliberately at first and avoid declarations that could box them in.

First New Labour and now, more aggressively, the coalition government, have subjugated co-ordination to competing policy imperatives.

We propose short-term, medium-term and long-term recommendations that consider fiscal pressure and competing healthcare imperatives [ 5].

But the energy sector is a complex mosaic of competing interests and imperatives, with no quick fix.

Washington dutifully recorded Tanacharison's words, fully aware that they exposed the competing, indeed contradictory, imperatives that defined his diplomatic mission into the American wilderness.

This issue of editions often stirs up competing scholarly and pragmatic imperatives at opera houses.