Sentence examples for of the imperative from inspiring English sources

These books are corporate devotionals, generous in their use of the imperative mood.

"You will not like me," he declares at the start, with more than a touch of the imperative.

This is certainly ambitious food but the cooking never loses site of the imperative of big clean flavours.

In 2004, giving a speech to midshipmen at the Naval Academy, he spoke of the imperative of sparing innocents in battle.

Barry Popik of the American Dialect Society found a 1994 usage of the imperative warning by the comic Martin Lawrence, talking to Entertainment Weekly about his Fox sitcom.

STEVE COLL: Much discussion of the imperative of wearing bright colors, arriving early, and sitting on the aisle — so as to be noticed on TV.

Those who remembered 1945 and its aftermath saw the analogy between Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and Hitler, and spoke unhappily of the imperative to avoid appeasement.

Ground games were once an exclusively American fixation – a function of the imperative of having to get out the vote in a system where voting isn't compulsory.

But the cinematic fulfillment of the imperative to remember has more recently been taken up in smaller, more individuated acts of commemoration.

Max Weber wrote of the imperative of "calculability" in a legal system, the need to ensure that risks can be identified and addressed with reasonable predictability.

You kneel in a carpeted room while an imam-style figure tells you of horrors outside and of the imperative to flee.