That priority can't be reconciled with the imperatives of a liberal education.

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The Four Imperatives provide a simplified way to analyze the physics and math that rule our energy and its delivery, the latter better known as power.

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Biodiversity, coral reefs, wetlands and trash-free seas aren't just terms on a page they are environmental imperatives that dictate the future of the planet.

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Investing in your brand, being your own best brand champion, or hiring a brand champion should be strategic imperatives.

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All of those imperatives are being driven by a set of global forces that are stressing and reshaping every kind of industry and every type of business.

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The development of truck-based SUVs and vans touches on all those imperatives, he emphasized repeatedly at a roundtable discussion with reporters, and it will continue to bolster that success.

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India's finance minister has attempted a deft balancing act between the pressures of populism and the imperatives of austerity in the annual budget.

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This would recognise that moral imperatives might sometimes override the principle of non-interference in a state's internal affairs.

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Underlying all of the short-term imperatives, however, is South Korea's need to get itself out of a long-run jam.

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