The phrase "imperative by" can be correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of giving a command or making a request. Example: "Please complete this assignment by tomorrow. It is imperative by the deadline."
The negotiations – announced after Athens asked for further clarifications as to how the bailout package would work – have been made imperative by the country's soaring borrowing costs.
Indeed the impact of Germont père's "Piangi, piangi" ("Weep, weep") in Act II, sung with stiff-upper-lip imperative by Paolo Gavanelli, still haunts.
"There is a certain spoken and unspoken imperative by all the rights holders to make the pie a little bit bigger".
International touring, made possible at first by perestroika and then imperative by the collapse in state funding, turned most of those who rose to the Gergiev challenge into international stars.
To the Editor: Re "The Public Imperative," by Roger Cohen (column, The New York Times on the Web, Oct. 5): Mr. Cohen urges Congress to include a public option in the health care legislation, like that in most European countries.
Coming in June is a book billed as "Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Imperative by Eric Van Lustbader", which is the seventh Bourne instalment without Ludlum, while Deaver's Carte Blanche is the 37th Bond book written since Fleming's death.
In one sense, the episode was a cautionary tale for the new media age, which finds traditional media outlets like Forbes responding both to the economic imperatives of the digital age by cutting staff and to the editorial imperatives by bringing in more outside voices — Mr. D'Souza is not a staff writer — and sometimes elevating opinion above rigorous reporting.
For instance, Mark Fowler argues that "coercion generally involves the prima facie immoral imposition of practical imperatives by use of threats" (Fowler 1982, 330).
The Victorian Government responded to these broader imperatives by implementing a range of strategies such as scholarships and incentive schemes to attract and retain a diverse and qualified early childhood workforce (DEECD, 2009b).
In both those outings, Lord and Miller were able to transcend materialistic imperatives by making larger statements about the complex relationship between art and commerce.
A few years ago, our sister company, a media company, followed global imperatives by streamlining seniority grades from nine to three.
