Sentence examples for to imperative from inspiring English sources
noun
The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
- The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the imperative.
It will take a generation of youngsters, raised on the likes of UML, before such "declarative" languages pose a significant threat to "imperative" ones.
Meanwhile, logical empiricists (or logical positivists) were interested only in the analysis of expressions of moral judgment, which they reduced to imperative statements that are emotive and aimed at winning adherents.
Crow, who detectably loved food, was the garde-manger of this process, supervising it from cooler to customer, reacting to the marginalia of grammarians, fact checkers, first readers, second readers, closers, lawyers, and the Supreme Eyeshade, selecting the marginalia on a short spectrum from valid to imperative and passing them along to the author.
Desire transformed from alluring to imperative.
However, partial nephrectomy (PN) ± ThE may be considered in rare cases due to imperative (I) indications.
These abstract machines can be associated to imperative programing, which describes the operations in terms of sequences of elementary instructions executed to change the program state.
Nevertheless, it continues to be imperative to improve the quality of life in inoperable geriatric patients.
These authors found subsequent radical excision to be imperative to prevent local recurrence.
There is a naturalistic desire, subject to imperatives of consumption and enjoyment.
Prescriptive meaning is defined in relation to imperatives: a statement is prescriptive if it entails, if necessary in conjunction with purely factual statements, at least one imperative; and to assent to an imperative is to prescribe action.
To be subject to imperatives is to find a constraint of action or thought in what is not immediate.
