Sentence examples for imperative force from inspiring English sources

Exact(1)

When a person believes that P, she endorses or accepts the proposition that P; when a person intends to F, she endorses or accepts the practition, 'I [am] to F.' Roughly a practition ascribes an action property F to an agent, but the ascription involves a distinctive type of predication that essentially carries some kind of imperative force.

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Put more simply, in modern Britain there is no biological imperative forcing a Scotsman, even subtly, to behave differently from his counterpart in the south-east of England.

So, there had to be a real imperative forcing me back in front of the microphone: the knowledge that time was running out for me to do it again.

She talks about being "dependent on a system that doesn't act on our interests", and the misplaced imperatives forced on Wales by the economically dominant English south-east.

Even if drugs are eventually approved under this new approach, it will be imperative to force manufacturers to conduct follow-up studies, as required by law, to see if patients benefit in the long run.

But with Obama, who in many ways remains the American Left's messiah even as his legacy is burnished with a mixture of the bad (drone wars, secrecy) and the ugly (fiscal crisis)—there's hardly an imperative to force the DOJ to speak the truth about Swartz's prosecution.

A1 If President Bush decides to release a secret document describing omens of a catastrophic terrorist attack in 2001, it would be the latest example of how political imperatives sometimes force officials to set aside the government's normal procedures for classifying and declassifying "national security information".

In the last decade or so, feminist theorists like Linda Benn DeLibero, among others, have come to view the mini (along with the shapeless body type it idealized) not simply as a signifier of sexual liberation but as an agent of rebellion against the mature female form and the cultural imperative that forced women into childbearing.

Throughout the text, this manipulation – an experimental factor – will be called "urgency", to denote the fact that, especially at 0.2 and 0.5 s, the imperative cue forced observers to emit a sudden, early response.

Policy implementation imperatives may force researchers to consider innovative alternatives and create tools that are an important innovation and research output in their own right.

But by 1963, economic imperatives had forced him to change his tune.

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