imperious necessity

Hence the imperious necessity for the Party to be united.

Hunger and fatigue were forgotten in the face of this imperious necessity.

'Tis not imperious necessity Which throws us at thy feet!

Am I not merely obeying an imperious necessity?"

No such imperious necessity acting upon me, I gave away to my oiko-phobia and the summer of 1815 found me in Brussels."

As the sociologist from Geneva phrases it, "Your suppression imposes itself as an imperious necessity."

This deepening leads to a loss of precision, according to which science, although a form of knowledge that is distributed and shared, establishes itself as an imperious necessity, the same as philosophy.

The pangs of thirst began to be severely felt; brandy, far from appeasing this imperious necessity, augmented it, and richly merited the name of "tiger's milk" applied to it by the African natives.

But worst of all, we ignore and never mention the Sole Impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.

Bonaparte felt a real pleasure in saving men under the sentence of the law; and whenever the imperious necessity of his policy, to which, in truth, he sacrificed everything, permitted it, he rejoiced in the exercise of mercy.

Yet this man undoubtedly founded his whole polity on the negation of what we think the most imperious necessities; in his three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, he denied to himself and those he loved most, property, love, and liberty.

In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away the easy supply of daily wants and so proves a rough master, that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes.

Soon he came to a parting of the ways; leading from the highway was a road less travelled, having the appearance, in- deed, of having been long abandoned, because, he thought, it led to something evil; yet he turned into it without hesitation, impelled by some imperious necessity.

She threw herself round my neck, called me her good angel who brought her happy tidings: asked me a thousand questions which I easily contrived to make her answer herself, and thus, forced by imperious necessity, bereft of all other means, did I act the deceiver.