"And also, I react to this as a journalist -- an interchange of information and ideas between government and the news media is indispensable to a functioning democracy, and if you start scaring sources with the possibility of years in prison, the loser is not going to be the news media -- it's going to be the public, " he said.
Quick, granular feedback from customers is indispensable to a company, which is why we originally developed the Net Promoter system.
And Chuck recognizes that American leadership is indispensable in a dangerous world.
He welcomed the speech, he said, because it created two conditions for progress which he, too, regarded as indispensable: a change of Palestinian leadership and an end to terror.
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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.
Any company that bestows a primadonna with recognition as somehow being indispensable, is a company about ready to experience a completely avoidable disaster.
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But in any other place, a person would be granted a presumption of sincerity if a dear friend and indispensable colleague had finally met a mountain he couldn't move.
The human right to water is indispensable for leading a life in human dignity, and it is a prerequisite for the realization of other human rights.
Taken as a whole, it has grown to become an almost indispensable resource for planning a trip to Scotland, with dispatches from Edinburgh to the Inner Hebrides.
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For many it has become indispensable: in a poll conducted by Gallup last month, half of the respondents said they would switch banks if theirs stopped offering its debit card.
On the subject of style, Mr Bellos explains how it came to mean something other than the indispensable attributes of a gentleman and how literary style became contained within the structure of a sentence.
And we will see the challenge, successfully met by Lincoln, of bringing together people of different political parties and different ideologies to achieve major goals, along with the indispensable requirement of a clear vision and an unbreakable determination in pursuit of an ideal.
In 1965 Lewis Coser, an eminent sociologist, argued that the modern university had become an indispensable part of a civilised society, a place that provides salaried intellectuals with a milieu conducive to the exchange of ideas and, uniquely, a licence to disagree with those who pay them.
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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That could make the medicine, the first of its kind, indispensable to patients with a high risk of a heart attack.
Turkey's geography and its unique status as a functioning, secular democracy in an Islamic nation make it a truly indispensable ally for the United States.
Not only did it release a billion people from penury and oppression but it transformed China from a communist enemy of the U.S. into a now indispensable capitalist partner.
As a leader, the fact that you would allow an employee to become indispensable to begin with means that at a minimum you have a lack of transparency and continuity in your organization, and more probably that you lack depth of talent and are weak in process and knowledge management.
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People who once considered a Zip drive indispensable are neglecting to include them when upgrading their PCs.
Instead, we are reconfirming the importance of NATO by providing indispensable American air support for a European-led mission.
As you might have noticed, people like Pete. (Laughter.) He is a unique and indispensable asset to me and to this administration.
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The cave has become a misty but indispensable part of his legend, to Miyamoto what the cherry tree was to George Washington, or what LSD is to Steve Jobs.
And even as more nations take on the responsibilities of global leadership, our alliance will remain indispensable to the goal of a century that is more peaceful, more prosperous and more just.
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As more and more useful, content-rich cooking information for the home chef has migrated online and into apps like "Epicurious, " tablets have become as indispensable in the kitchen as a sharp knife.
As such, she is a unique and indispensable witness to both the strength and weakness of the West: to the splendor of open society and to the boundless energy of its antagonists.
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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.
Fear is both a potent and indispensable emotion.
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NOTABLY, AT the same time that the US electorate decided they'd had it with being the indispensable nation and so reelected a man who said the US is as exceptional as Greece, Israelis have decided we've had enough with trying to pretend we're nothing special.
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Only nominally a social network in the conventional sense of the term, LinkedIn has grown from a company that seemed hopelessly mired in a business niche into a profitable powerhouse that is now indispensable to both recruiters and the rest of us who want to get recruited for a better job.
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