However, since grammar excludes following "if" by an imperative, it is replaced in the antecedent by a special use of "you want".
But if the imperative at Alabama is cleaning up a tarnished image, here's what's important: Croom has an impressive background apart from football.
Threatening to shut down trade negotiations or promising to renegotiate settled trade agreements, for example the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), makes no sense if the imperative is to build on the gathering momentum of the US economy.
But Bennett's play is at its strongest when it deals with the theme implicit in its title: the idea that, for the artist, creativity is a constant, if troubling imperative.
For, if psychiatric imperative is to treat "sick souls", then clinicians would be remiss in over privileging a scientific attitude to the exclusion of all others.
However, that simple rule lacks application here; for the operator with widest scope in the conclusion is "if", and not an imperative.
For most animals, eating is a simple matter of biological imperative: if you're a koala, you seek out eucalyptus leaves; if you're a prairie vole, you munch on bluegrass and clover.
Efforts to detect, punish and deter terrorism remain imperative if basic freedoms and security are to be preserved.
- Ralphie If it is imperative to have the gate alarm sound, it should sound inside the token booth.
A fair and thorough account of what happened is imperative if we are to avoid future financial disasters.
