Sentence examples for the first imperative from inspiring English sources

You would think the first imperative would be to protect the children.

When you are guarding a lead in any competitive endeavor, the first imperative is to avoid mistakes.

ABSOLUTELY the first imperative is that everyone remembers to look upon this beaming, beatific champion and say: "Jolly well done, Anna Watkins!" It is her alchemy, after all, that has finally turned silver into gold.

6.28pm GMT 7th over: England 34-3 (Hales 15, Buttler 4) This is scratchy, scrappy stuff from England, who can't afford to lose any more wickets, but need to score runs fast, and at the moment are very much prioritising the first imperative over the second.

After all, when it comes to responding to climate disruption every report and recommendation — from the Stern report to the IPCC — assumes that measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions must accommodate the first imperative, maintaining the rate of economic growth, even though it is GDP growth that escalates greenhouse gas emissions.

For all of the candidates, Trump included, the first imperative is avoiding a terrible blunder that could upend their campaign, such as the one Perry made, in November, 2011, when he couldn't remember the name of a federal agency he'd pledged to abolish.

And that is the second imperative.

The second imperative is that the sanctions game be revealed for an empty farce.

The second imperative is time: a long cooking time is what takes the stew from good to terrific.

The ideas they'd discussed gave him a sense of the third imperative of the crime-survivors movement: having people like him step up to the policy table.

The third imperative is for Obama to shift from what Nader Mousavizadeh of the International Institute for Strategic Studies recently called a "mix of rhetorical innovation and policy continuation" to new thinking on Iran freed of carrot-and-stick redundancy.