What is "imperative"

Usage examples of "imperative".

He no longer got up in the morning with a certain uplift of spirit, work seemed duller and more laborious, food less appetising, sleep more imperative but less refreshing.

Faintly, like the voices of the Atlantean dreams, so came that call, but it was imperative, so demanding that he had to listen-to listen and then to stop running between the trees toward the unknown goal.

It becomes even more imperative, given our findings on behavioral differences, that we not only learn how to detect cases of child sexual abuse early but also delve further into behavioral outcomes, particularly in the noncriminal abused adults.

Tagalong and Clemmerick in Rowanslea, as well as part of her household guard, it was imperative to make Cedarbird understand that she was still a power to be reckoned with.

Green seems to have felt that his design, in its more ambitious scope, must be abandoned, and that, in the impossibility of applying the Coleridgian system of philosophy to all human knowledge, it was his imperative duty under his literary trust to work out that particular application of it which its author had most at heart.

Beyond Earth, the United Church had placed a moral imperative lock, an elaborate Edict, on all information about the Meliorares, the society of renegade eugenicists responsible for whatever bastard mutation he had become.

He is not to dismount, strike below, or otherwise render unfit for immediate use, any of the guns on board the ship he commands, except imperative necessity should require it for the safety of the vessel.

All that made it absolutely imperative that the feds okay the Histogen vessel for clinical trials.

Since you made me homeostatic there was another imperative: to repair the malfunction.

By the time I had disembarked from my first-class coach at Howrah Station, I had acknowledged the imperative of that great truth.

Sartre accepts the Kantian imperative which advises us to treat men as ends, not as means, he points out that, in practice, ethical action entails the treatment of men as means.

The Modern State arose indeed out of the same social imperatives and the same constructive impulses that begot Marxism and Leninism, but as an independent, maturer, and sounder revolutionary conception.

On April 26 the stream became a flood, and while Saul and Barney Mul-doon tried to reason with Markoff Chaney and he struggled in their grip, Ingolstadters found themselves inundated by Frodo Baggins and His Ring, the Mouse That Roars, the Crew of the Flying Saucer, the Magnificent Ambersons, the House I Live In, the Sound of One Hand, the Territorial Imperative, the Druids of Stonehenge, the Heads of Easter Island, the Lost Continent of Mu, Bugs Bunny and His Fourteen Carrots, the Gospel According to Marx, the Card-Carrying Members, the Sands of Mars, the Erection, the Association, the Amalgamation, the St.

Only at the end of the reading did Rotherham unfold his arms, and stroll over to the desk, holding out an imperative hand.

Everyone of the Sangoans seemed to accept his dictation, however imperative it might be, as a matter of course, and the gray old captain--who had seen much of the world--was not the least subservient to his young master.