Sentence examples for imperative on from inspiring English sources

With the Research Excellence Framework's (REF) impact imperative on one side, and outcries over the humanities' intrinsic value on the other, engagement debates are creating a frustrating (and self-fulfilling) dichotomy between the ivory tower and the "real world".

Yours is a case that turns the categorical imperative on its head.

For decades a wall has separated political action from the scientific imperative on climate change.

But this is the flipside to the imperative on the part of funders to take the sector seriously.

His conduct, his insistence on "having fun as a categorical imperative, on the ephemeral," left its mark on Italy.

"It seems to me that the imperative on both sides, the pressure on both sides, is to get rid of any warheads you don't need," the secretary said.

The wistful imperative of "Put on your hat, put on your gloves.

Cops and prosecutors complain about it all the time: Somehow, right and wrong tumbled over each other and the no-snitching imperative took on the aura of morality.

But with all the focus on writing techniques on the one hand, and political imperatives on the other, I wonder if we're not losing sight of the big picture.

From then on Mr Strachan is at one with A.J.P. Taylor: timetables imposed their awful imperatives on the generals.

Scholars and others thus project current political imperatives on to the past, and the notion of "minorities" affirms one big, longstanding Chinese family.In Tibet the narrative is enforced with a few blandishments and many shows of state power.