I. adjective
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a moral imperative (= something that must be done for moral reasons )
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He felt that rescuing the hostages was a moral imperative.
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But, for the reason just given, it is hardly imperative that we should.
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He remains convinced that it is imperative to work hard on his swing.
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It is imperative that we begin to end this harmful system of separation.
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It is imperative that young and middle-aged adults confront their own and each other's ageism.
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It was imperative that she should reach Dana before he did.
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To exceed the limitations of the lens became imperative .
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We're expanding rapidly, and it's imperative that we function with more efficiency.
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When the writing begins, it is imperative that relevant research should be summarized.
II. noun
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economic
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But there were economic as well as cultural imperatives .
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This is not to say that economic imperatives play no part in penal developments.
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False notions of rationality have been imputed to the Modern Movement in architecture, stressing economic and technological imperatives .
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Firstly, it fails to explain the mechanisms linking an economic imperative with a penal practice.
moral
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None the less, the moral imperatives that are intrinsic to the student role will always reassert themselves.
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Are moral imperatives stronger than political power?
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If we proceed from prudential to moral imperatives , will the conditions of the choice be fundamentally changed?
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But it is also a moral imperative .
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Sometimes there's a moral imperative and you feel everything building up behind you that you have to do it.
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If there are no absolutes or eternal values, then the moral imperative behind such movements evaporates into thin air.
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That the moral imperative was not a sufficient condition has already been remarked upon.
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Ending discrimination against older consumers may be regarded as a moral imperative , but it also makes sound economic sense.
political
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The political imperatives are those choices faced by states, either solely or in alliance with others.
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Versatility was declared a political imperative .
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These tensions also inform the nature of the political imperatives , both international and national.
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The rise of the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century crystallized the intellectual and political imperatives of evolutionary biology.
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That ideological and political imperatives underlay the plan of systematization can not be doubted.
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Why was full employment a political imperative between 1944 and 1975?
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Having children is a biological imperative .
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Reducing air pollution has become an imperative .
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Attitudes, relationships and administrations owed much to the ethical imperatives of the playing fields.
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Here the world system is perceived in terms of the strategic imperatives posed by geography.
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His first imperative always has been political survival.
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In Keynes's view, the great imperative was public works.
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Lianne, a physician, should have known better than to ignore the Touch / Training imperatives.
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Often, however, the two imperatives will be in conflict.