imperatives

But Hezbollah has more pressing strategic imperatives today, and Nasrallah is not known as an impulsive leader.

There are also funding and logistical imperatives for ISIS to pursue the proto-state strategy.

Even matters of life and death are sometimes asked to yield to the rigid imperatives of a clear rule.

The auteurs of the world are no longer given free rein and are now beholden to certain financial imperatives.

And sadly, the twin imperatives of protecting Jews, and supporting rights and dignity for all people, can sometimes collide.

We affect a tremendous and cultivated shyness and delicacy about imperatives of the most arbitrary appearance.

The child never put this particular record into his list of imperatives, but he was reconciled to it.

This word therefore is the blending or corruption of bot and beut, the Imperatives of two Saxon verbs, botan and beutan.

Would those whom such conclusions repelled be content to oppose to nature's imperatives only the protests of the heart?

I refer to the high and passionate imperatives of the heroic, desperate, treasonable heart of man.