Sentence examples for to imperatives 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.
(After being fitfully applied, the policy succumbed to imperatives of the Cold War, if not to common decency).
The first is that Mr. Jones, 67, though not well known outside of New Jersey — he was born in Paterson and has lived in Jersey City for four decades — has chosen to spend the better part of his career making art according to imperatives that have nothing to do with artistic fashion.
There is a naturalistic desire, subject to imperatives of consumption and enjoyment.
To be subject to imperatives is to find a constraint of action or thought in what is not immediate.
Prescriptivists suggest that moral judgments are a species of prescriptive judgement and that moral sentences in the indicative mood are semantically more akin to imperatives than indicatives.
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.
Desire transformed from alluring to imperative.
However, partial nephrectomy (PN) ± ThE may be considered in rare cases due to imperative (I) indications.
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.
"Learn to Code!" This imperative to program seems to be everywhere these days.
