But Burberry's global presence and reach — its more than 200 fully owned retail stores and similar number of department store concessions, its 5.9 million Instagram followers and over 17 million Facebook likes, its position as the only high-fashion member of London's FTSE 100 — have the power to transform consumer expectations, creating a knock-on imperative for other brands.
Now, let's turn to the question of the ethical implications of the hands-on imperative.
The important role of this hands-on imperative is apparent from the following quotation from the Biopunk Manifesto by Meredith Patterson, the 'doyenne' of DIY-Bio: "Scientific literacy is necessary for a functioning society in the modern age.
In a sense, the Glowing Plant Project can be seen as an extreme application of the hands-on imperative in ethics, or Meredith Patterson's 'do-ocracy' – its reduction ad absurdum, so to say.
According to the hands-on imperative, "hackers believe that essential lessons can be learned about the system – about the world – from taking things apart, seeing how they work, and using this knowledge to create new and interesting things" (Levy 1984, 22).
DIY-Bio fully subscribes to the first principle of the hacker ethic, as formulated in Steven Levy's 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution: "Always yield to the hands-on imperative!" Employing this principle requires free access to the tools of scientific investigation, open information, and knowledge sharing.
Ministers blamed the Human Rights Act but the decision was mainly based on immigration rules, brought in to comply with an EU directive, which say that a national of an EU state who has resided in the UK for 10 years cannot be deported except on "imperative grounds of public security".
Therefore, civilian security must be at risk for an order of forced displacement, based on imperative military reasons, to be legitimate.
A number of these authors highlight that legality of an evacuation order must be based on imperative military reasons and must be assessed in the light of the knowledge available to the military commander 'at that time'.
Therefore, by relying more on imperative clauses to issue commands, Huineng in the translations by Cleary and Heng appears to be more direct and powerful than the same Chan master presented by Wong and Cheng.
