Sentence examples similar to imperative prevails from inspiring English sources
But once the Vichy leaders had been executed for treason after the Liberation, a different imperative prevailed: to keep France united, to avoid recriminations and to draw a veil over the past.
Or will the new prosperity imperative prevail over such concerns?
It is an age-old struggle between personal benefit and community benefit, and many Americans seemingly perceive that the economy today is neither sick enough nor well enough for either imperative to prevail.
Since 2010, the humanitarian imperative that prevailed in the various international forums consisted in stressing the dangers caused by a detonation, whether it is voluntary, accidental or malicious.
It is a curious but telling aspect of Havel's well-known saying, from its inspirations in Jan Hus ('Truth prevails'), that it was seldom clear whether the proper verb modality here was the indicative or imperative: 'prevails' or 'must prevail.' While the moral tenor seems rather obvious, it is formally ambiguous whether Havel is making a descriptive or normative claim.
