The "categorical imperative" means something quite different, but it does sound like the right term for the self-protective psychological urge that drove Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), creatof of the Thesaurus, to classify and categorize all manner of things over a long lifetime.
This tribal imperative means that the parties which share power at Stormont feel free to oppose each other in the Westminster contest sometimes vehemently without endangering the Belfast Assembly.A similar lack of crossover exists between politics and the violence that has never been completely eradicated.
Remarkably and almost uniquely among poor and rich countries alike, the affirmative action imperative meant that posts at every level were open to competition from outside, leading managers to complain that they could not use discretionary promotion as a way of retaining staff.
In the contemporary world, the problems of cities and growing environmental and social imperatives mean that human geography will continue to exert a critical influence that informs and challenges the efforts of urban planning to manage and shape the future course of our increasingly urban world.
And by imperative, I mean that there needs to be absolutely massive governmental and private sector investment, NOW.
He screamed "Nelzya!" – a strong Russian imperative which means something like "it is impermissible!" – several times down the phone at the US president and then hung up.
Without the Olympian velocity of a Cristiano Ronaldo or Yaya Toure's adamantine strength, finesse is imperative – that means recycling possession among midfielders and full-backs until a tantalising defensive gap offers a through-ball opportunity, or an out-of-position opponent provides a brief window in which to cross.
Thus the imperfective imperative ghráphe might mean 'start writing!' or 'write regularly!' while ghrápse means rather 'write down!
We investigated the effects of HPMC concentration (X1) and time of ultrasonication (X2) on imperative attributes like mean particle size (Y1), % drug content (Y2), and time required to 90% drug release (Y3) via 32 factorial design.
This cultural imperative does not mean EE is unimportant; rather, it has implications for illness duration and relapse [ 13].
