Sentence examples for imperative to do something from inspiring English sources

"You'll get yourself in trouble if you feel it's imperative to do something just to do something," he said.

Haunted by messages left on the answer-phone while his dad was being incinerated, Oskar embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of a key found in a vase, armed only with pubescent pluck and the imperative "to do something, like sharks, who die if they don't swim, which I know about".

Not knowing amounted to the best excuse for not acting, especially when the imperative to do something was accentuated by the daily Serb bombardment of Sarajevo that began in 1992 and by an archipelago of Serbian concentration camps for Bosnian Muslims uncovered that year.

It will be interesting to see if Yahoo or Ask follow suit and feel any imperative to do something really interesting.

They were propelled to vote in droves by the imperative to do something about income inequality, which he called the "great moral issue of our time".

After both sides agreed that it was imperative to do something about the health insurance crisis, and almost 5 hours of discussion, Boehner retreated back into the standard Republican tropes and misrepresentations.

"To some degree, our emphasis on going in is not only an incentive but almost an imperative for him to do something," Mr. Sick said.

For that reason alone, it is imperative for the Senate to do something it has been unable to do so far this year -- pass some budget ceilings and a renewal of mechanisms that enforce them.

It is now more imperative and more expensive to do something than it would have been in, say, 1990.

And are there more imperatives telling the subject not to do something – ie "Don't" – than to to do so?

Ironically in Latin, hailing from an Ancient Roman culture of slavery, brutality and oppression, the negative form of the imperative adds in the words noli (singular) or nolite (plural) before the imperative form, yet these literally mean "do not want to" do something, which seems uncharacteristically polite for a command.