Is the following use of “imperative” really good style?
In writing the following article were significant researches on the use of
personal data in different fields such as marketing, medicine, sociology, etc. At some stage during this process it becomes imperative, for the protection of individual privacy, that such data be sanitized to remove information that could potentially identify some set of personal data as belonging to a certain individual.
Is “becomes imperative… that such data be sanitized” a good style? Is the above OK in general?
What is the ideal way to describe a client?
Imperative implies an imperator, which is contradicted by the passive construction of data be sanitized. Perhaps you should substitute privacy laws and ethics require the researcher to clean .
I replied from one of the first paragraphs with suggestions for an alternative, and read the second paragraph too hastily. Yours is fine as it stands. If you read my answer before, please disregard it.
Imperative is an adjective that means vital importance, crucial ; the sentence containing imperative can be written as At
some stage along this process it becomes crucial, for the protection of individual privacy, that such data be sanitized to remove the information that potentially could identify some set of personal data as belonging to a certain individual.
When I would reply a question in a clear,
clear, concise manner, always respecting my friends’s privacy.
