Sentence examples for imperatives not from inspiring English sources

The term "climate change refugee," after all, invokes all manner of political, legal and financial imperatives — not least those arising from a 1951 U.N. convention on refugees.

The two phases of Brown's period at the Treasury – first of famine, then of feast – were a response to political imperatives, not to timeless rules.

Mr. Xi's handling of the past, however, is driven by political imperatives, not family memories, said Edward Friedman, an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was an editor of the English version of Mr. Yang's book "Tombstone".

Since founding his company in 1984 he has had a singular knack for pairing his sexually charged, elegantly virtuosic movement language (interpreted by dancers like Davalois Fearon, above) with some of the hottest musicians and fashion designers of the moment; more impressively, he has done it for artistic imperatives, not marketing ones.

That transformation will be forced by biological imperatives, not money or markets.

They are governed by the popular imperatives, not the most erudite.

He was driven by the imperative not to lose the war.

If you cannot win, Giovanni Trapattoni has regularly stated, it is imperative not to lose.

The imperative not to weaken the presidency was invoked whenever we debated counterterrorism policies in the Bush White House.

Economists as a rule are driven by the imperative not just to understand the world, but to improve it.

And make a reality of the moral imperative not to have these, especially vulnerable children, left behind.