Sentence examples for rather than imperative from inspiring English sources

But he said the current austerity drive was motivated by Conservative ideology rather than imperative.

That is the commercial, rather than physical, imperative.

So it seems that the real title's proper noun is adjectivally possessive, and its verb must therefore be taken as drearily descriptive rather than rousingly imperative.

The short summary is that everybody betrays everybody else, that opportunism trumps idealism and that telling the truth is a matter of tactical calculation rather than ethical imperative.

In the models to follow, an exclamative rather than an imperative or optative is used to model the emotive features of ethical language.

His book is optimistic, noting that political rather than economic imperatives have always driven the euro.

For example: How could the Corcoran's director have allowed her museum to respond to political rather than cultural imperatives?

These are all social decisions that determine our approach to fiscal management, rather than economic imperatives that determine our values as society.

The accelerated drawdown will dismay American and British commanders in Kabul, who have privately expressed concern that the White House is now being driven by political rather than military imperatives.

One reaction among liberals to the Bush years and to Iraq was to retreat from "idealism" toward "realism," in which the United States would act cautiously and, above all, according to national interests rather than moral imperatives.

And if it is the key that allows Europe to modernise its budget and address the challenges of the 21st century rather than the imperatives of the 1950s, trading in the British rebate is a price well worth paying.