If both parts of this creed had not been equally imperative, Lewis might have escaped.

The youth's struggle between the soul's imperative demand and the equally imperative parental dictate was pathetic.

It was imperative to get you out of Washington, and if so, it is equally imperative to keep you out of Washington.

But, surely, it is equally imperative that we should make it a country even better worth defending for all and by all.

No doubt the first command of the Queen of Heaven was for light, but the second, at least equally imperative, was for colour.

They stand on a different footing from primal moral duties, which remain equally imperative whether doing them leads to physical good or evil.