Sentence examples for social imperatives from inspiring English sources

There are all kinds of social imperatives commanding us not to — just as there are all kinds of social imperatives restricting the biological imperative to reproduce.

The author attributes this to a range of social imperatives including the "intensifying application of knowledge and rationality to human affairs".

Everyone, especially in Jerusalem, where religious, historical, cultural and social imperatives collide, has a gremlin inside whispering that it may not be safe.

Michael Bloomberg now has at least limited authority to integrate this knowledge with the social imperatives of the dense urban core at a pivotal moment.

But he says "a growing band of home-grown plutocrats" find this analysis – the idea that wealth should be shared in order to achieve broader economic and social imperatives – "too much to bear".

Vikings (Thursdays 8.35pm, on SBS One) offers a more considered look at the ferocious spirit, survival tactics and social imperatives that impelled Norse warriors to venture forth during the 10th century in quest of pillage, plunder and power … and the advancement of their society.

It's an economic imperative as well as a social imperative to crack our housing crisis.

And contrary to the social imperative, they all seem to coexist in relative bliss".

If profligacy has been their social imperative, its moral corollary is unflinching tolerance.

"Apart from the moral or social imperative, it's now tied to financial performance incentives".

Mass literacy acquires a new importance in these nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and the establishment of universal primary education becomes a social imperative.