Imperatives Quotes

When you're building your strategy around the user, it changes the business imperatives. This world of Web services really is not about the technology itself, it's about business. The business issues are so much at play that they are really more important than the technology. - Herman Baumann

The problem for state television is that it hasn't been able to find a place, and nor can it, between the commercial imperatives and being a public service broadcaster. It remains very much driven by commercial imperatives. - Bob Gregory

The nation is concerned about ocean pollution, rising sea levels, the health of fisheries and coral reefs, and the possibility that the circulation of the ocean itself may be significantly altered by global warming resulting from fossil-fuel burning. Given these imperatives, and as long as there is student interest, there will be University support for activities and programs that involve undergraduates in marine science. - Lee Kump

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. - Earl Warren

The latest tests not only escalate the nuclear race in South Asia but more importantly divert scare resources to nuclear weapons and missile development programs from the imperatives of economic and social developments. - Fidel Ramos

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. - Paul Wellstone

The HIV epidemic is a global catastrophe, ... It is compounded by tremendous inequalities in care that must be dealt with now, not only for moral and ethical reasons, but also because of political, social and economic imperatives. - Bruce Walker

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air. - Brit Hume