What's the difference between emphatic and imperative?

Emphatic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Emphatical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sow had a couple of chances and the substitute Emmanuel Emenike drew a sharp last-minute save out of Szczesny but Giroud's penalty, after Kadlec's foul on Walcott, represented Arsenal's emphatic final word.
  • (2) Once more the opportunity arose from a lack of cohesion down City’s left, Victor Wanyama breaking up play in midfield and feeding Tadic, who advanced and slipped a precise ball between Kolarov and Eliaquim Mangala to Mané, who emphatically finished past Hart.
  • (3) His first hat-trick for the club, at a stadium where visiting players are not used to profiting, was emphatic proof of that.
  • (4) It was emphatically not, as the Tory right and the dismayed left have already concluded, evidence that Britain remains a fundamentally conservative country.
  • (5) Nevertheless, the usefulness of gut endocrinology in the clinical management of gastrointestinal diseases, following an emphatic start, is now restricted to gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumours.
  • (6) People use it to buy things, but (as the firm emphatically proclaims) "Kickstarter is not a store" – so it doesn't have to offer the same protections.
  • (7) The composition of the different protein-containing food substrata exerts emphatic influence on the induction of these enzymes.
  • (8) Manuel Pellegrini was delighted by the style with which Manchester City knocked out Paris Saint-Germain to reach the Champions League semi-finals and the manager was emphatic they can win the competition.
  • (9) Pearson has advocated the separate document since last year, but on Monday made his most emphatic remarks on the subject at the launch of Uphold and Recognise , an organisation “committed both to upholding the Australian constitution and recognising Indigenous Australians”.
  • (10) Sánchez and Özil demonstrated their class with exquisite interplay before the German crossed for Campbell, who finished emphatically before being engulfed by team-mates delighted both for the player and for a victory that augurs well for the club.
  • (11) The finish was emphatic, an afternoon’s frustration expunged with one swing of his left boot.
  • (12) Two goals each from Wayne Rooney, Ashley Young and the debutant Reece James , plus Danny Welbeck’s opener, returned an emphatic victory in United’s opening game of their summer tour of the US.
  • (13) Most have emphatically rejected proposals that they be forced to apply for warrants to access metadata.
  • (14) There are going to be some people on either side who are going to be really emphatic about what they believe,” said Molly Roberts, a 22-year-old senior studying English who writes a column for the Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper.
  • (15) Indeed, the episode became part of a new escalation in hostilities between the two candidates which would later include King's charge -emphatically denied - that Respect activists were seeking to whip up Muslim antagonism against her by highlighting her Jewish background.
  • (16) Representing the German consensus, Schulz was much more emphatic about not isolating Russia and keeping the door open to negotiations.
  • (17) John Healey, shadow health secretary, emerging as a soberly effective and emphatic critic, this week exposed how new inflation figures show the NHS will suffer a real cut, alongside its most radically disruptive reorganisation.
  • (18) Most previous polls have found opinion leaning the same way, although the two-to-one margin revealed on Wednesday is particularly emphatic.
  • (19) There are clear majorities against unqualified teaching, especially emphatic among Labour voters (68%) and even more particularly Ukip supporters (73%).
  • (20) They were valid questions but Germany’s answer has been emphatic.

Imperative


Definition:

  • (a.) Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.
  • (a.) Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.
  • (a.) Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.
  • (n.) The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is imperative that NPs know how to assess for victimization and safety and that they provide patients with needed information about community services.
  • (2) Old lefties who have failed to understand the imperatives of electoral politics for 40 years are never going to change their minds.
  • (3) In order to reduce the devasting effects of enteric diseases among children born to mothers in tropical countries of Africa and Asia, it is imperative that all health workers understand the cultural and social perceptions of their clients towards the disease in question.
  • (4) Future research imperatives should include differentiating between depressive symptoms and diagnoses, investigating the use of interviewer-administered measures of depression as screening tools, and investigating the relationships between depression, physiologic disease, and use of health services.
  • (5) What’s imperative from an organizational standpoint, he added, is “understanding where voters are, what their concerns are, and building a sophisticated operation around that.
  • (6) Emergent management is imperative for convulsive tonic-clonic (grand mal) status epilepticus, but there are nonconvulsive types of status epilepticus in which the problem is more one of correct diagnosis than emergent management.
  • (7) In order to discriminate between these two activities and optimize potentially therapeutic ribozymes, it is imperative to develop in vivo assays in which the antisense activity of ribozymes is negligible.
  • (8) Its recognition is imperative in the overall management of the trauma patient.
  • (9) In short, there is a cultural imperative to love the panda that even the pandapathetic find hard to ignore.
  • (10) To empower these nurses to respond effectively, it is imperative that the profession be reclarified as a specialty with a distinct philosophy and mission.
  • (11) She says: "There is a democratic imperative for the arts to show why the hard-pressed taxpayer – struggling with the cost of living crisis – should fund the arts.
  • (12) Monti introduced balanced budgets into the Italian constitution, effectively neutering its provisions for social need's precedence over market imperatives.
  • (13) It is imperative that health professionals have accurate knowledge about HIV infection and feel comfortable as they educate parents and children about this major health problem confronting society.
  • (14) Performance differences between simple and selective response tasks appear to depend not upon differential preparation, but upon selective processing of the imperative signal, which is reflected in the N120 component of the visual evoked response to that signal.
  • (15) Therefore, early aggressive management of persistently draining wounds after TKA is imperative.
  • (16) The delay of voiding until imperative desire to urinate must be avoided.
  • (17) In 3 patients with an imperative indication for conservative surgery a second tumor occurred in the kidney: 2 were treated with further parenchyma sparing operations, while in 1 with poor physical condition no further measures were possible.
  • (18) Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) were used as the warning stimulus (S1) and the imperative stimulus (S2), and a different electrode was placed on Cz according to the international 10-20 system.
  • (19) That is to say, besides the obviously imperative therapeutic action, a prophylaxis is also a necessity.
  • (20) Finally, the rapidly expanding problem of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome among some minority populations provides both an imperative and an opportunity to learn how model prevention programs should be designed and executed.