Sentence examples for occasional imperative from inspiring English sources

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"The data is consistent with the view in the industry that a lot of new-car buyers purchase vehicles for the occasional imperative – the weekend trip, the vacation," Dr. Graham said.

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Mr. Jurow said that many S.U.V. owners were being driven into pickups by the "occasional use imperative" -- that is, the infrequent instances when they really needed a truck for home projects like hauling mulch or moving furniture, chores that utilities don't handle well.

Despite an occasional flirtation with the imperative and the didactic, in The Banjo Clock the gnomic aspect (that grammatical aspect that expresses general truths or aphorisms) is almost entirely absent, in keeping with the consensus among postmodernists that capital-T Truth is dead.

He made the occasional public statement about the moral imperative of passing it, and this was significant--the first southern president in modern times calling for civil rights legislation.

Obama can do that, if he moves from the occasional speech to making this a prime imperative for the nation.

Obama's most significant breakthroughs came with China, an occasional adversary but one for whom the imperative of addressing environmental challenges had become more significant since Copenhagen.

Khashoggi, who was an occasional rival of Kassar's, once defended lavish living as an imperative of the arms trade, observing, "Flowers and light attract nightingales and butterflies".

Anomalous in principle, all three have pointedly failed to recognize the imperative need to scale-down the bulging €350+ billion sovereign debt of Greece -- aside from the IMF's occasional musings on the subject.

Imperative tasks.

"Communication is imperative".

Outdoor space was imperative.

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