Sentence examples for imperatives first from inspiring English sources

"The next police commissioner faces two equally compelling imperatives: first to continue to bring crime down, and second to help the city navigate its way out of the current conundrum about the stop-and-frisk tactics".

In Washington state, the report notes, more than a quarter of hospitals are Catholic-affiliated, leaving "entire geographic regions" dependent on institutions that put religious imperatives first.

The decision not to operate, consistent with the Hippocratic imperative (first do no harm), would almost certainly grant him a longer life.

In my mind, there are four reasons this is imperative: First, the world needs to expand, not contract, access to health care because of the sheer burden of disease.

Graeme Smith's inclination is usually to bat, and more so now given the state of the series and the imperative first and foremost to bat England out of contention.

But, it's an imperative first step.

Finally, our data suggest that to obtain repair of the severed structure/function it is imperative first to suppress/prevent the fluid accumulation.

It is imperative, first of all, that responding to the hepatitis C epidemic is part of the public agenda, that both policymakers and communities are aware that the problem exists, and that they understand what can be done to prevent and treat it.

The objects-first strategy to teaching programming has prevailed over the imperative-first and functional-first strategies during the last decade.

Imperative, second to Hoppertunity in the San Antonio, and Donworth, who finished third in that race after a long layoff, are also in the race.

Ms. Hutchinson, who has a sharp ear for dialogue (most of her best lines can't be printed here), gets many things right: a health teacher's lecture involving a banana and a condom; the casually cruel banter of high school students (Lavita Shaurice shines as a tart-tongued locker room tyrant); the hesitations and imperatives of first love.