It's particularly handy for blunt imperatives calling for resolute action: think of wake up!, grow up!, hurry up! and put up or shut up!
It's become a national imperative, including calls for improvement from President Barack Obama and at every level of our education system.
Hans Jonas, in The Imperative of Responsibility, calls for a radical change in ethics.
Whether we have an accident on one of our biking or hiking trails, or an emergency such as the recent canyon and downtown flooding, it's imperative that people be able to call for help.
"Even in this very tight budget," said Gene Sperling, national economic adviser, "the president felt that there was an imperative to call right now for a more simplified and effective training system" that also had an increase in funds.
Volcker continues to call for the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall restrictions, and recognizes the imperative of maintaining the link between deposit insurance and commercial bank lending.
As part of the call for continuity across both conditions, integration of the two programmes was presented as imperative to ensure consistency in practice (and arguably, equity).
Despite Francis's call for concrete steps, organizers have said the meeting is designed foremost to be educational — emphasizing the imperative not to bury abuse accusations.
The economic imperative of our time calls for an evolution of the dominant logic and operating system from one that is based on ego-system awareness to one that is based on eco-system awareness.
Burma's Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has called for the imperative to achieve freedom from fear as a foundation in political development.
The dialog between students and their peers should be developed in many forms––e-mails, chat discussions, synchronous discussions, and even phone calls for complex or imperative needs using an educational technology (Johnson et al. 2000).
