Making things worse, he then goes on to say how important it is for all of us to become indispensable, for not to be indispensable is tantamount to economic and career suicide.

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It may be some time before the technique can routinely outperform a dog's nose, but may become indispensable for cases in which a grave may be hidden beneath more than just soil.

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As it has been for six decades, our alliance is going to be indispensable to our shared future, the security we need and the prosperity that we seek not only in this region but around the world.

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It would be more accurate, albeit tautological, to say that rare earths are indispensable for those technologies that require rare earths.

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For boards, the expanded role of the GC can be indispensable as risk and compliance oversight are now such prepossessing boardroom concerns.

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That has opened the way to restoring the earnings link to the basic state pension, another no-go area for the chancellor, but an indispensable reform if means-testing is to be arrested and saving encouraged.

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