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  • 21imperative — adjective 1) it is imperative that you find him Syn: vitally important, of vital importance, all important, vital, crucial, critical, essential, necessary, indispensable, urgent; compulsory, obligatory, mandatory Ant …

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  • 22imperative — adj. & n. adj. 1 urgent. 2 obligatory. 3 commanding, peremptory. 4 Gram. (of a mood) expressing a command (e.g. come here!). n. 1 Gram. the imperative mood. 2 a command. Derivatives: imperatival adj. imperatively adv. imperativeness n. Etymology …

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  • 23The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — For the novel by C.S. Lewis, see The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. For other uses, see The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (disambiguation). The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Theatrical Poster …

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  • 24The Dark Knight Returns — Batman: The Dark Knight Returns The Dark Knight Returns #1 (Feb. 1986). Cover art by penciler inker Frank Miller and colorist Lynn Varley. Publication information …

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  • 25The 2010 Imperative — is an initiative issued by Architecture 2030 that requires ecological literacy, largely missing from the curriculum in the United States, to become a key element of design education by 2010, in order to combat global warming and world resource… …

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  • 26imperative — The standard mood of sentences used to issue requests and commands. Questions in the philosophy of language arising from imperatives include estimating whether the need to issue requests and commands might be as basic as the need to communicate… …

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  • 27imperative theory — command theory or imperative theory (associated with Jeremy Bentham and John Austin) is based on the notion of commands issued by a sovereign. Bentham did not insist that the sovereign power be single, indivisible and answerable to no one. The… …

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  • 28imperative — ► ADJECTIVE 1) of vital importance. 2) giving an authoritative command. 3) Grammar denoting the mood of a verb that expresses a command or exhortation, as in come here! ► NOUN ▪ an essential or urgent thing. DERIVATIVES imperatively adverb …

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