The phrase "contradictory imperatives" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe situations where two commands or directives conflict with each other.
Example: "The manager's contradictory imperatives left the team confused about their priorities."
Alternatives: "conflicting commands" or "opposing directives".
In "Kreisleriana," a 35-minute suite in eight movements, Schumann seems caught between contradictory imperatives.
Instead, there's a jumble of contradictory imperatives, nurtured in groupthink and sustained by careerism: cut immigration; boost the economy; protect the hardworking taxpayer; threaten the tax base.
No. Law can mediate community and liberty? a theory of the liberal commons provides the bridge that reconciles these two seemingly contradictory imperatives.
Those final two lines work as contradictory imperatives, like the commands in the story of Mr. Fox: Be bold, but not too bold.
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.
But it was for the distributors to arrange import procedures, and to cope with customs formalities and border taxes on the computers to which they held title.This division of labour allowed Acer to reconcile the contradictory imperatives confronting it in Russia.
How it is eventually resolved may partly turn on how a deeply shaken Labour Party responds to the contradictory electoral imperatives it now faces: needing to move left to win back votes in Scotland but back to the center to offset the drift of English Labour voters to UKIP.
While watching the documentary, it is difficult to hold in mind two contradictory but equally imperative ideas: that victims should be believed, and that the accused are innocent until proved guilty.
Participants were particularly concerned that subsidy restrictions may be gender discriminatory given that contradictory workplace and fertility imperatives put women in "an impossible situation" (Martha) with regard to the timing of conception and childrearing.
Is a consideration of human needs contradictory when juxtaposed with current imperatives focused on environmental aims?
However, above all, the conclusion is that stringent requirements for experimental design are imperative to avoid contradictory data, and to further this promising area of research.
