Sentence examples for on practical imperatives from inspiring English sources
While this approach must be supplemented with further details (including, perhaps, a resort to a baseline to distinguish threats from offers), its principal contribution is its reliance on "practical imperatives".
For instance, Mark Fowler argues that "coercion generally involves the prima facie immoral imposition of practical imperatives by use of threats" (Fowler 1982, 330).
So commentators on trade and immigration should stress the cosmopolitan perspective, knowing that the practical imperatives of the nation-state will not be underrepresented in the ensuing debate.
The protagonists would never be matched by an internet dating site, but more practical imperatives bring them together.
They do not justify our failure to recognize the moral and practical imperatives to mount a full-throttle treatment program in conjunction with ongoing education and prevention efforts.
Hobbes calls these practical imperatives "Lawes of Nature", the sum of which is not to treat others in ways we would not have them treat us.
Will the practical imperative to rebuild and incorporate a memorial on this prized real estate take hold?
When there is an electoral, or practical, imperative to deal with Muslim concerns, local administrators somehow get round the taboos.
Watching Fiennes, you'd never know that "Coriolanus" is not only a great tragedy but also a moving meditation on the political temperament — and the dangers that await the politician who fails to reconcile the moral need to be true to himself with the practical imperative to be popular.
The moral and practical imperative to begin to put arms permanently beyond use now needs to be hammered home, particularly by the Irish government.
And here we see perhaps the most direct effect that Locke's axiology has on his assessment of spirituals discriminating them as he does into types in terms of their feeling-quality, but also linking each form with a set of imperatives in this case, a practical imperative understood by the type of activity that each song is used to motivate.
