The imperativalist acknowledges that ultimate legislative power may be self-limiting, or limited externally by what public opinion will tolerate, and also that legal systems contain provisions that are not imperatives (for example, permissions, definitions, and so on).
These gestures create a referential triangle between signaler, recipient and a third entity and are used either to make requests (imperatives, for example, 'take this') or as a means to obtain 'attention' in the form of "laughter, comment, smiles and eye contact" (declaratives, for example, 'look at this').
These extensions are imperative, for example, for applications of the POD DEIM method to large-scale compressible flows.
For some cells, restricting polarity to a single front is absolutely imperative: for example, a migrating leukocyte with two fronts would split itself apart (Houk et al., 2012).
Kant's categorical imperative test, for example, holds that universalizability is the distinguishing feature of correct moral judgments, and that a judgment is universalizable if and only if it can, without contradiction, be willed as a universal practical law (Kant 1964 [1785]).
In the development of polymer materials, the addition of multi-stimuli-responsive behavior is imperative [1 3], for example, thermo-redox [4], thermo-salt [5], thermo-pH [6 8] among others [9, 10].
Many epistemologists have proposed various categorical imperatives for inductive inquiry, for example in the form of an "inductive logic" or norms of "epistemic rationality".
Corporations, in an effort to justify their claim on taxpayer bailouts, tax breaks, and abandoning the social contract with the national workforce, routinely cloak their economic self-interest in the moral imperative of their survival — for example, by saying that they are "too big to fail" — as if their hold on power serves the national interest.
The three main criteria to prioritise choices are: 1) enabling conditions (that capacity has to exist); 2) strategic imperatives - international policy support, for example in The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) [ 2]; and 3) mutual benefit for Europe and Africa.
Baggini argues that atheism is a superior basis for ethics, claiming that a moral basis external to religious imperatives is necessary to evaluate the morality of the imperatives themselves to be able to discern, for example, that "thou shalt steal" is immoral even if one's religion instructs it and that atheists, therefore, have the advantage of being more inclined to make such evaluations.
For example, the peace imperative is conflated with the humanitarian imperative resulting in the withholding of aid, as the UK government was accused of in Sierra Leone in 1997 and Afghanistan from 1996 (Macrae 2000: 4).
