Sentence examples for imperatives than from inspiring English sources

But many papers can remain sustainable if they are managed properly and driven less by profit imperatives than a commitment to public service.

The vast military and civilian enterprise — the United States alone has spent $83 billion in assistance since 2001 — has been shaped more by Western security imperatives than by an understanding of the country's complex social fabric, political economy, or, for that matter, its peoples' priorities.

The other adults use more Commands, including more congruent Commands (expressed as imperatives) than the teachers.

Prescriptivists suggest that moral judgments are a species of prescriptive judgement and that moral sentences in the indicative mood are semantically more akin to imperatives than indicatives.

This is more imperative than suggestive.

Nevertheless some agreement seems more imperative than ever.

The issues that pervade the exhibition are more imperative than they might seem, Mr. Hosler said.

Your belief in your child being special is more probably a biological imperative than an empirical fact.

It reminded me of the moment when a poem comes to me, when it's more of an imperative than an idea.

Progress may have been made in 2015, but it's more imperative than ever not to treat it as a fad or selling point.

Nor does the novel deny individuality; the tomboyishness of Lusa's niece, Crystal, is less a sexual imperative than "just her way of trying to be herself".