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Discover LudwigThe term "prime imperative" is not commonly used in written English.
It is not listed in most dictionaries and does not have an established meaning. If you are referring to the grammatical term "imperative," then it is correct and can be used in written English. The imperative form is used to give commands or make requests. Example: "Please clean your room before you leave for school." (In this sentence, "please clean" is the imperative form.) If you are using "prime" as an adjective to mean "main" or "essential," then you could potentially use it in a sentence. Example: "The prime imperative for our company is to always provide excellent customer service." (In this sentence, "prime imperative" is being used to emphasize the main or essential goal of the company.).
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Obama can do that, if he moves from the occasional speech to making this a prime imperative for the nation.
A central take-home message, he said (and I agreed), is that adaptation to heat is a prime imperative even as the much tougher task of moving beyond conventional use of fossil fuels is pursued.
But working aggressively to limit other drivers of risk (poverty, vulnerable agriculture and water systems) is also a prime imperative, as is boosting the capacity to watch for and recognize warning signs (there's more on that here).
These days, he said, men who are in the focus groups he conducts as part of his research into what constitutes a good father still say their "prime imperative is to provide for the family".
The prime imperative has become the political art of the deal.
What's wrong with making music with the prime imperative of having fun?
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But it is also a prime business imperative.
In her essay "No Law in the Arena," cultural critic Camille Paglia talks about homosexuality being a daily struggle against nature that, ironically, isn't for sissies a quotidian fight against the prime biological imperative of procreation.
But a political imperative presses upon Prime Minister David Cameron.
He wrote on his website: "It really is imperative that the Prime Minister is questioned, among other things, about his decision to impose a quite unnecessary and expensive early return of Parliament which was simply a hideous outpouring of right-wing eulogies and rants doused in crocodile tears.
It is imperative that the Prime Minister sets a clear and narrow resolution so that the debate is focused and no too broad.
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