(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.
Indispensable
Definition:
(a.) Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.
(a.) Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption.
(a.) Unavoidable; inevitable.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
(2) The lack of any easy clinical characteristic objectivisation often prevents easy recognition and complex diagnostic investigation is therefore indispensable.
(3) Duplex and color Doppler sonography have become indispensable for evaluating the major vessels of the abdomen.
(4) The data presented here indicate that renal clearance is not indispensable for eliminating etoposide.
(5) Therefore, observance of the generally accepted withdrawal time of 10 days is indispensable.
(6) Nurses are an indispensable part of these urban health teams and, if they are not already, should start now to become involved in urban policymaking and planning and consider how their national nurses' association can individually or collaboratively support healthy city projects and national healthy city networks.
(7) It is indispensable to establish a close cooperation between the public health authorities and the private physician, and we therefore wish to sincerely thank all colleagues and Public Health Officers for their collaboration.
(8) Treasury secretary Tim Geithner called her an "exceptional talent" whose broad experience would "provide invaluable leadership for this indispensable institution at a critical time for the global economy".
(9) These changes facilitate radium therapy which remains an indispensable arm for sterilizing primary lesions.
(10) "We will take part as requested … An agreement is indispensable for Europe, and not just Europe ," UniCredit chief executive Federico Ghizzoni told reporters in Rome, according to Reuters.
(11) A careful physical examination is indispensable, and masses should be evaluated with consideration given to mobility, location, consistency, contour, and site.
(12) Using this scoring system it is possible to establish comparable groups of patients - which seems indispensable for a critical examination of various therapeutic procedures.
(13) indispensable to attain normal reaching motor functions.
(14) This case shows that new or recurrent spinal cord symptoms may be due to a mechanical deformity of the cord rather than shunt malfunction, that restricting the length of the shunt catheter which is used to decompress PTSCCs is important, and that IOSS is an indispensable tool for visualizing the changes in spinal cord morphology during shunting procedures.
(15) In 46 patients the standard series was sufficient for diagnosis of allergic occupational contact dermatitis, but in thirty three cases it was indispensable to test them with additional subsances.
(16) That is a sign for increasing waste of reciprocal control of adrenal gland and liver, that is indispensable to maintenance of corticosteroid hemostasis.
(17) In order to establish whether the periaqueductal gray (PAG) is indispensible for peptide-induced excessive grooming, lesions were placed in the dorsal part of this structure.
(18) Polymodal pattern of regulation of this parameter is suggested which includes indispensable participation of both thermal and non-thermal factors of selection.
(19) Play is indispensable to human progress and good for individuals.
(20) Ultrasound is an indispensable tool for preliminary diagnosis ('filter function'), during treatment ('monitoring function') and in the followup examinations ('follow-up function') after shock wave lithotripsy of gallstones.