The reconstruction of the Balkans by Western governments, led by the United States, has always been an imperial project, driven by a clear, if reluctantly grasped, imperative to replace the collapsed Communist state of Tito's era with a new architecture of states that would bring stability to a combustible corner of Europe.
For promoting the development of fuel cells and metal-air batteries, it is imperative to replace rare and expensive precious-metal catalysts with sustainable catalysts composed of earth-abundant elements.
If replacing all your underwear was the first imperative of the newly divorced, replacing your glasses with contacts was the second.
That imperative has replaced another election promise: "economic democratisation", to encourage start-ups by reining in the power of the country's powerful corporations, or chaebol.
Nevertheless, Bolzano refused to accept the Categorical Imperative strictly and replaced it with the utilitarian principle of "the advancement of the general welfare", as he proudly reports in his autobiography (Bolzano 1836, 23).
However, since grammar excludes following "if" by an imperative, it is replaced in the antecedent by a special use of "you want".
Marquand is at his strongest in articulating a Burkean case for stronger action on climate change, and the need to replace the "imperative of economic growth" with "the imperative of sustainability".
Then, yes, it is possible to imagine a significant, even sensational impact, but we cannot know until the platitudes he uttered in Krakow yesterday are replaced by the imperative of serious action.
Interestingness is the categorical imperative of Sehgal's world.
The invitation stressed the imperative of putting family first.
