History suggests, however, that it can be indispensable to catalyzing constructive change of the kind virtually everyone agrees is needed at the UN.
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Nearer home, he has little patience with the commander of NATO's Southern Forces, Admiral Leighton Smith, who opposed the bombing that Holbrooke believed to be indispensable to the start of a serious negotiating process.
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.
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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The other party sitting pretty is the Christian Democrats, led by Josef Lux, who has every reason to believe that he will be as indispensable to a centre-left coalition as he was to the outgoing centre-right one.
While the official line was that this step was taken as a function of normal year-end "indexing, " the real impetus was clear: By mid-December, the stock experienced a roughly 29% decline from its peak value on 6 September1 -- despite reasonably strong earnings -- thanks to an international divestment campaign waged against a company seen to be providing indispensable new revenue streams to one of the planet's most odious regimes.
Reducing consumption seems intuitively to be an indispensable component of any policy response to climate change.
Over the past 36 months, the Patriot Act has proved itself to be an indispensable tool that the men and women of law enforcement use to combat terrorism and to compile a record of accomplishment that has grown even as their responsibility for the safety of Americans has increased.
Nuclear testing must continue to be permitted to play its indispensable role in ensuring the credibility, effectiveness and safety of U.S. nuclear forces.
China, like the United States, is becoming an indispensable partner, to be handled with care.
The one thing we can't do is withdraw from the region, because the United States continues to be the one indispensable nation.
You will also be sending an indispensable signal that future efforts to disarm the United States through unverifiable, ineffective agreements aimed at stigmatizing weapon systems will also be rejected.
The sweeping changes ahead should not be underestimated, and those reforms are indispensable to Israel's progress toward a truly world-class economy with broadly dispersed prosperity made possible in part by higher levels of foreign investment.
Those individuals who attempt to hoard knowledge, relationships, or resources to attain job security should not to be valued or viewed as indispensable, but should be admonished as ineffective and deemed a liability.
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This is the moment to which you can trace so much of what would come to be known as Gaullism, the moment when selective memory would begin to play its indispensable role in the rebuilding of France.
There is a great deal still to be done to make the United Nations, this indispensable organization, into an effective instrument humanity needs, in this new century, to fulfil the hopes for peace, development and human rights.
UN: TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AT HEADQUARTERS, 22 MARCH 2001
"These people tend to be highly responsible individuals who fundamentally believe that they're not only important to others but also indispensable, " Mr. Davis says.
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.
It would be more accurate, albeit tautological, to say that rare earths are indispensable for those technologies that require rare earths.
The explosion of federal debt has increased pressure on politicians to decide which functions of government are indispensable and which should be dialed back.
The document says giving up weapons is an "indispensable" part of the Agreement and must be resolved in a manner acceptable to the decommissioning body.
Odds are, the only conversion likely to result from such assistance will be to ensure that Moscow retains, perhaps at lower cost, this indispensable instrument for threatening the West.
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But, in the face of this analysis, it is of the utmost importance that we, as a nation, recognize the indispensable role that pipelines have played and will by necessity continue to be utilized in our economy.
His retirement sends an important message about the contribution of individuals to great organizations: No one is indispensable, and everyone can be replaced.
He said further integration of the 17-nation eurozone was "indispensable", but "under no circumstances must this be seen as an alternative to the integrity of the single market, or indeed the integrity of the union as a whole".
These are indispensable conditions for Arab-Israeli peace, the conditions without which no peace agreement can reasonably be deemed to have solved the problem.
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Few capabilities are more indispensable to the future combat effectiveness of the Marines than those that enable troops and equipment to be rapidly and survivably transported from assault ships over the beach and around the battle zone.
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