Sentence examples for universal imperative from inspiring English sources

(As if in response to some universal imperative, Rose looks a lot better after leaving the Knicks).

They note heroes (Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Jesus, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the 18th century), villains (Thomas ­Hobbes, John Calvin, the 19th century), tracking how kindness was "steadily downgraded from a universal imperative to the prerogative of specific social constituencies: romantic poets, clergymen, charity workers, and — above all — women".

The payoff was supposed to be a unification of logic for sentences in various moods, including moral sentences which Hare thought were a species of universal imperative.

"The protection of children is a universal imperative, and families, extended families and communities of origin have a pivotal role to play in the reintegration of all separated children".

The protection of children is a universal imperative, and it is critical that the reintegration of all separated children – including formerly abducted children – be reintegrated into their families, extended families or communities of origin.

"The survival, protection and development of children are universal imperative that lie at the heart of the Millennium Development Goals, the central objective for human progress in the coming decade.

By following universal imperatives, the will escapes the contingencies and determinism of the phenomenal or empirical realm.

Such precepts may change if God so desires and so Scotus and Ockham produce an ethics quite different in spirit from that of Kant's theory of universal imperatives.

These documents, together with the oral reports you will hear this week, are a testament to the fact that the survival, protection and development of children remain universal development imperatives -- imperatives that are crucial for human progress.

It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative.

We believe that the survival, protection and development of children are universal development imperatives that are integral to human progress.