For many Greek high school graduates, who are currently sitting for their university entrance examinations, studying in Greece is not a choice but an imperative dictated by their families' lack of economic means to fund a university education abroad.
And that imperative dictates the next generation is always a little creeped out by whatever the previous generation is doing, wearing, dancing to, or joking about with the woman behind the bakery counter.
The question is whether this battle will be like Rocky where the champ was bloodied but ultimately victorious or more like Rocky II through Rocky V, progressively worse movies where commercial imperatives dictated that the scrappy challenger prevail.
Commercial imperatives certainly dictate our World Cups.
Furthermore, the cellular senescence we have identified could be imperative in dictating the success of possible future biologic therapies, which may require the insertion of new metabolically active cells into the degenerate disc to achieve success.
After 12 years of inconclusive war, the moral imperatives of the situation dictate that the human suffering must cease.
It is merely a reflection of the financial imperative that, more than anything, dictates the modern game.
As the Great Powers of Europe wreaked havoc on their weaker neighbors or on Asians, Africans and Latin Americans, they masked their own barbarism, at least in their own minds, as being dictated by a civilizational imperative.
The logic here was based on the declared imperative of unlimited opportunity, which, in turn, dictated unlimited growth.
Dictated by the regime survival imperative, such state intervention simply perpetuates corruption.
