Sentence examples for the imperative to avoid from inspiring English sources

Those who remembered 1945 and its aftermath saw the analogy between Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and Hitler, and spoke unhappily of the imperative to avoid appeasement.

You quote Shashank Joshi of the Royal United Services Institute as saying "the decision to send trainers is shaped by the imperative to avoid escalation" (The UK move in Ukraine is largely symbolic but raises a question – what happens next?, 25 February).

Despite the rough edges, Colonel Kolenda said the meetings helped the American high command settle on central parts of its strategy — the imperative to avoid civilian casualties, in particular, which the elders consistently and angrily denounced during the sessions — and also smoothed relations between the elders and commanders.

Television has more Hispanic performers than ever before, and dramas and sitcoms have always offered plenty of working-class heroes, but the imperative to avoid offensive stereotypes is so strong in Hollywood that when it comes to regular characters, Hispanics are more often cast as homeowners than housekeepers.

"The imperative to avoid regulation and taxes".

The CEO of the largest publicly owned fossil fuel company suggests that the desire of some individuals and corporations to continue to benefit from the sale and use of fossil fuels trumps the imperative to avoid catastrophic risks to us all.

Two "imperatives," they believe, should shape foreign policy in the 21st century -- the moral imperative" to avoid the kind of carnage caused by conflict in the 20th century; and "the multilateral imperative," which holds that the United States "will not apply its economic, political or military power unilaterally" (except to defend itself).

The author Thomas Cahill cited the New York imperative to avoid eye contact on the street or in the subway.

Yet local authorities still have a statutory duty to ensure that every child has a school place – and the political imperative to avoid discontent among parents who vote – even while the means to do so have largely vanished now that two thirds of secondary schools are academies which they do not control.

Given the naturalistic trajectory of drug treatment in this patient, and the clinical imperative to avoid both clozapine toxicity and sub-therapeutic levels, medication changes were made to anticipate likely effects on clozapine levels.

Yet he was able to reverse the religious imperative to avoid greater damage.