Sentence examples for imperative at work from inspiring English sources

Whatever the truth, though, there is a wider political imperative at work.

But there is a commercial imperative at work here as well as a moral or legal one.

There's presumably some kind of masochistic imperative at work here — the perverse compulsion of masochism, that is, without any of the perverse pleasure.

There's presumably some kind of masochistic imperative at work here the perverse compulsion of masochism, that is, without any of the perverse pleasure.

There is a new social and ethical imperative at work, and the two previous winners of this award testify to that: a super-cheap laptop for children in developing countries and the poster that helped get Obama elected.

But there is an even more recent imperative at work in Beijing's calculations than the matter of overcoming the humiliations of the last two centuries, and its name is the US.

But there are conflicting imperatives at work, and Mr. Gilbert has never quite gotten the balance right.

Nobody likes to eat crow in plain sight, especially in front of millions of viewers, but there are other imperatives at work.

Disparate media imperatives were at work, but they converged and whipsawed into a self-sustaining frenzy.

Spiritual imperatives are also at work.

On the north balcony you'll find several paintings of artists at work clustered in a corner, as well as Louis Moeller's delectable, if empty, "Sculptor's Studio," a meticulous study in shades of gray, beige and white that a Met curator recommended, even though it didn't quite fill the artist-at-work imperative.