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.
Does a biological imperative dictate the value of our lives?
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.
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.
Commercial imperatives certainly dictate our World Cups.
On balance, he held that the dictates or imperatives of reason were "accompanied by a certain impulse to do the acts recognized as right," while admitting that other impulses may conflict (Sidgwick, 1907: 34).
It is merely a reflection of the financial imperative that, more than anything, dictates the modern game.
But the other side of the coin is that those who don't believe also were to be free from legislative imperatives to follow the church's dictates.
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.
