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SuperESL Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Imperative
"His faith had been weakening for years under the imperatives of running a financially crippled church"
I came across the sentence in quotation marks from a NY Times article today. I suppose the author intends the word 'imperative' as it is used here to mean "demands" or "pressures" (....under the demands/pressures of running....).
Is the use of the word here a stretch or is this a very commonplace way of deploying the word?
Thank you.
I came across the sentence in quotation marks from a NY Times article today. I suppose the author intends the word 'imperative' as it is used here to mean "demands" or "pressures" (....under the demands/pressures of running....).
Is the use of the word here a stretch or is this a very commonplace way of deploying the word?
Thank you.
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Is the use of the word here a stretch or is this a very commonplace way of deploying the word? Neither.
- Is the use of the word here a stretch or is this a very commonplace way of deploying the word?
- Neither.
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Is the use of the word here a stretch or is this a very commonplace way of deploying the word? Neither.
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