Evangelical adoptions picked up in earnest in the middle of the last decade, when a wave of prominent Christians, including the megachurch pastor Rick Warren and leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, began to promote adoption as a special imperative for believers.
One group of verbs (the ones ending in -er in present tense) has a special imperative form (generally the verb stem), but with most verbs the imperative is identical to the infinitive form.
The Bills' owner, Ralph Wilson, said yesterday that he considered the firing of Ronnie Jones, in his first year as special teams coach, imperative for the improvement of our team.
The strategy emphasizes that special attention is imperative during humanitarian crises and in fragile settings, since maternal deaths tend to rise in these contexts.
At the same time that well-established work groups are disrupted by technical imperatives, special efforts are made to help newly formed work groups evolve meaningful team relations quickly.
Specifically, they said an apparent disagreement between the two men over how to judge evidence collected by the special counsel made it imperative for Congress to scrutinize every detail of the case to ensure impartiality.
Therefore, some orthodontic patients do need special consideration, making it imperative to find a method that decreases the patients' initial discomfort and pain during the separator placement visit to ensure good compliance in the orthodontic visits.
The persistent gross underrepresentation of economists from these groups in the ranks of university faculty, particularly in economics departments, makes it imperative that special efforts be made to insure that junior faculty from these groups produce a research and teaching profile that will lead to promotion and tenure.
An independent, objective, analysis about special access is an imperative, and it certainly doesn't exist today.
In working to uncover your special talent, it is imperative to engage in intense introspection and, if need be, to probe people in your life who know you well, soak in their perspectives and hone in on a common theme.
The imperative is a special grammatical mood for commands, instructions and requests, and if you use an exclamation point, then the thought becomes a shout.
