"Our task is to bring the imperatives served by our financial markets into proper alignment with the values held by families and business people across our country: hard work, taking responsibility, being honest, being fair," Brown said.
The fourth imperative, organized scepticism, implies that science allows detached scrutiny of beliefs that are dearly held by other institutions.
A complementary view held by some logical positivists was that an evaluative assertion, properly understood, is not a statement of fact but either an expression of the speaker's attitude (e.g., of approval or disapproval) or an imperative a speech act aimed at influencing the behaviour of others.
Held by the Library of Congress.
Training Fellowship held by GT.
According to popular internet wisdom, it is an abbreviation of a less lofty imperative: hold my dick.
It should hold by itself.
Two "imperatives," they believe, should shape foreign policy in the 21st century -- the moral imperative" to avoid the kind of carnage caused by conflict in the 20th century; and "the multilateral imperative," which holds that the United States "will not apply its economic, political or military power unilaterally" (except to defend itself).
It is imperative that we respond this time by making sure that America will not be held hostage by unfriendly oil suppliers who finance terrorism and teach hatred of the West.
Facebook and Twitter, on the other hand, claim to have no editorial processes at all — at least, not processes that are overseen by humans — and no primary responsibility, apart from the commercial imperative to hold their users' attention.
