In the British public gaze, Mr. Blair became indistinguishable from the U.S. strategic imperative, much as he sought to depict it as his own, brushing aside huge public protests to support the invasion of Iraq.
Such returns to simplicity, directness, and the primacy of the word have been made periodically, out of loyalty to Platonic imperatives, however much these "neo" practices may have differed from those of the Greeks themselves.
But he says "a growing band of home-grown plutocrats" find this analysis – the idea that wealth should be shared in order to achieve broader economic and social imperatives – "too much to bear".
His revulsion is critical, because without it he wouldn't be as likable — character likability is a creative imperative as much in Sundance as in Hollywood — which makes him more like a person and less like a screenwriting conceit.
It is not an ideological imperative so much as a technical fix: a second-best response to market failure.In this section A nasty whiff of inflation Semper Fi Ménage à trois Baltic blues Real step forward Breaking the bank Cold shower Taxing times Unlikely revolutionaries ReprintsThis claim is best illustrated in the report's chapter on inequality and investment.
That strategy, Mr. Lachman said, serves corporate and shareholder imperatives, but "very much jeopardizes our chances of experiencing a real recovery".
What remains open to debate is how greatly our preferences are rooted in biological imperatives, and how much of our desire is based on the biases in our society that perpetuate sex differences, stitching those little bows on women's panties while leaving men to lounge in boxers styled after a prizefighter's shorts.
Current environmental imperatives have motivated much research on the possibilities of substitution of clinker, responsible for substantial emissions of CO2, by by-products of various industries.
But the phenomenon that Hare was pointing to that the relations between certain imperatives are very much like those between similar descriptions gives non-cognitivists a response to the objection that only genuinely truth-apt judgments can stand in logical relations to one another.
The answer is an Anglo-Saxon imperative that pretty much sums up Bronson's worldview.
