Sentence examples for the imperative was from inspiring English sources

The imperative was to get all those people who had been frightened witless to chill out.

Again the imperative was to return to business as usual as quickly as possible.

But for most, the imperative was to be seen as doing something about the recovering, but still anemic, job market.

When the American wine industry began in earnest in the 1960s, the imperative was national and even international.

Rather, she said, the imperative was to keep the process secret so also-rans would not learn the decision from the press.

The shadow transport secretary, Andy McDonald, said the "imperative was overwhelming" for more capacity and implied he would back Heathrow over Gatwick.

The imperative is the need for privacy.

The imperative is simple, the consequences fatal.

Perhaps the imperative is not sporting but economic.

Both Sarkozy and Hollande have accepted the imperative is balancing the books.

The derivation is operatic, grand operatic, that is; the imperative is largesse, style, majesty of presence.