Sentence examples for than imperative from inspiring English sources

The traffic lights there are more advisory than imperative.

These are easier to understand and less error-prone than imperative loops.

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

Moreover, declarative gestures were more frequently accompanied by vocalizations than imperative gestures were.

Unless we had some reason to think that such functions really did describe the world, we might well feel that a solution was less than imperative and less than unique.

Object-oriented programming is younger than imperative or functional -- it's the new kid on the block.

He would not specify how much the kidnappers had demanded, but it was a suggestion nonetheless of less-than-ideological imperatives driving the taking of hostages.

The resulting books are how-to guides written in the first person rather than the second, in the past tense rather than the imperative.

That is the commercial, rather than physical, imperative.

While it persists, its vestiges today often seem more a matter of sentiment than cultural 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.