Sentence examples for where the imperative from inspiring English sources

There are moments in life and legislating where the imperative for deliberation trumps the imperative for transparency, and Congress should occasionally turn the cameras off.

In what we might think of as Kenneth Starr's America--a nation where the imperative to root out "impropriety" gleefully sets secretaries against their bosses, friends against friends, mothers against daughters--personal loyalty has no place.

Ira Berkow focuses on the football culture, where the imperative to appear tough can overrule common sense ("In Plain Talk, There Is an Explanation for Stringer's Death," Aug. 5).

This is the result of the fog of government, where the imperative to "be seen to be doing something", to respond to the demands of the security services, to make government more efficient in the interests of "delivering services" – and so on, always as inexpensively as possible – distorts their grip on principle.

That uncomfortable conundrum appears in another medium this week, even one where the imperative is even more strongly to convey "the work" and "the art," and not concern itself with vulgar matters like celebrity.

Since participants could not know in advance where the imperative stimulus would appear, about half of the saccades during the preparation interval were directed into the opposite direction relative to the subsequent imperative stimulus (and corresponding manual response).

Social solidarity and, one must presume, social justice are viewed as something of a luxury: desirable, certainly, but only where the imperatives of the former allow.

The can't-look-away quality of his public persona and his media awareness have frequently pushed much of our national journalism into an unsavory corner where the imperatives of equal time, hard scrutiny and adherence to traditional standards have given way to the business lure of the huge television ratings and internet clicks that Mr. Trump uniquely provides.

The Program Era forced a sort of literality on poetry by shoehorning literary production and literary dialogue into an identifiably pedagogical space, where previously the imperative for poetry to educate and bring together disparate persons was (ironically) mere metaphor.

This fragmentation may be expedient in Washington, Ottawa and Berlin, where the immediate imperative is to preserve jobs.

If there is any place on earth where war and terror could be forgotten it should be this carefree seaside town where the only imperative is self-indulgence.