What's the difference between exigent and imperative?

Exigent


Definition:

  • (a.) Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.
  • (n.) Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.
  • (n.) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was the exigencies of World War II that brought about the 1st, largescale systematic promotion of condoms to prevent venereal disease.
  • (2) Therein lies the mission--and the obligation--of the Catholic hospital, which must continue into the future whatever new forms of organization exigencies may dictate.
  • (3) By similar methods rational, exigent therapeutic measures are selected (Table 5).
  • (4) The method was tested against the reference method using suspensions of C. Oedematiens (species demanding strictly anaerobiosis conditions), C. histolyticum (somewhat less exigent) and C. perfringens spores (mean esigence), seeding on the surface of dishes with Willis-Hobbs medium.
  • (5) At least some of the features of the principal and accessory submandibular glands of the vampire bat may be structural adaptations to the exigencies posed by the exclusively sanguivorous diet of these animals and its attendant extremely high intake of sodium chloride.
  • (6) Given the exigencies of the politics surrounding the Middle East peace process, only a fool would predict an outcome, not least with some diplomats in Washington assessing only a 10% chance of agreement on a framework document even by the April deadline.
  • (7) As long as government is allowed to collect all internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
  • (8) In addition to indicating that negative life situation exigencies, such as poor health and low income are related to lower well-being, the results tentatively indicate that these exigencies create a greater vulnerability to the impact of other negative conditions.
  • (9) Homosexual behavior among heterosexual women is discussed in terms of responses to different kinds of situational exigencies and the rationalizations used to deal with the experience while insulating the heterosexual self-identification.
  • (10) The exigencies of a disease-oriented strategy which requires a blend of therapeutic modalities many times require a modification of what would be an ideal modality-oriented strategy geared solely to effectively testing a new agent.
  • (11) The increasing frequency of chronic cholecystitis makes necessary a more minute diagnosis and exigent surgical indication, pledges for long-term favourable results.
  • (12) In contemporary psychiatry, neurobiological emphases and the exigencies of positivistic research have tended to standardize the picture of schizophrenia.
  • (13) Chris Mullin's most exigent friends would have relished its black comedy at a memorial service and then fallen, thanks to the Man Booker, upon an extraordinary saga that has yet to be promoted by Richard and Judy, the Grazia book club and Channel 4's TV Book Club .
  • (14) Long-run considerations, not short-run financial exigencies, should determine which activities occur in the private sector.
  • (15) New exigencies require new policies, and it's time to break with the past.
  • (16) Vertebrate egg envelopes, then, are basically similar; the modifications, including the addition of shell membranes and shells in some groups, reflect adaptations to differing reproductive strategies and to the environmental exigencies with which the egg must cope.
  • (17) There are five universal exigencies of being human, against which a person's existence can be evaluated: pairbondage, troopbondage, abidance, ycleptance, and foredoomance.
  • (18) Although the exigency level was not detailed, around 42% of the clinical trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry are performed according to GCP.
  • (19) He explains these deficiencies in terms of the exigencies of interdisciplinary work and the affinity of much early bioethics with policy- or legislatively-oriented "public ethics".
  • (20) To meet the exigencies of coping with the onset of schizophrenia in the family, caregivers sought out an array of professional and nonprofessional supports.

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.