Emma, the Daemons have evolved this way, shaped by their cultural imperatives.

Take your choice from social pressures, cultural imperatives, economic incentives, psychological needs and male domination.

Or did the cultural imperatives stifle male intelligence?

How can anyone possibly get along on any strange world without first knowing their taboos and cultural imperatives?

I understand your cultural imperative is the survival of the race, indeed the survival of every individual.

It was one thing to follow one's own cultural imperatives.

Exploration is not what one might call a 'cultural imperative' for my people.

Even so, he said, "There are just so many cultural imperatives that have been violated here."

Being entranced in one's own little world was once almost a cultural imperative of physics.

But there were economic as well as cultural imperatives.