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The indispensable aide is, indeed, one of the most well-worn tropes of the modern presidency.
As often as not, the trope is invented or encouraged by the particular indispensable figure.
The indispensable aide is only too happy to reveal some dramatic story about how he saved the day, devised some particularly ingenious idea, or prevented some terrible mistake.
But Britain’s military contribution to the war effort was not indispensable, so Bush did not have to heed Blair’s advice.
At the same time, PISA measures students’ social and emotional skills and attitudes toward learning, as well as educational equity and parental support – all of which provides indispensable context for understanding scores on international assessments.
The species that are so rapidly disappearing provide human beings with indispensable ecosystem services: regulating the climate, maintaining soil fertility, pollinating crops and defending them from pests, filtering fresh water, and supplying food.
And it will become indispensable as advances in artificial intelligence and biotechnology raise thorny ethical issues that can be addressed effectively only at the international level.
It should become a catalytic lender whose participation in eurozone programs remains desirable but not indispensable – giving it the possibility to disagree and walk away.
If that is to be avoided, continued leadership from the top – above all from Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev – will be indispensable.
If Ahmadinejad prevails, the dilemma for the West will be that it will have to deal with a regime discredited by election fraud, but still indispensable for resolving almost all of the Middle East’s important problems: Iran’s own nuclear program and the conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine.
For example, support from the United Arab Emirates has been indispensable to vaccinating children in Pakistan – along with Afghanistan, the only two countries that have never been polio-free.
The Cold War, the rise of Maoist China, the Korean War all made Japan indispensable to America.
He was an indispensable ally of the West in the fight against Islamist terrorism, culminating in Ethiopia’s military operation in neighboring Somalia in 2006.
He will be remembered as an African leader of major historical significance: visionary, despotic, and indispensable.
Futures markets have evolved historically in response to market participants’ need to manage price risks, and they are an indispensable marketing tool for many commodities.
There is no better expression of this commitment than recognizing the indispensable role that migrants play – and protecting their rights.
Their repressive lesson is indispensable to reach a higher state of intellectual and moral freedom.
Later, Ottoman Turkey was for centuries considered a part of the “concert of Europe,” proving indispensable in defining and securing the strategic balance among the European continent’s Great Powers.
But it will not be the same: even if America remains an indispensable nation, it will no longer be the only one.
If resource allocation is skewed toward physical capital at the expense of accumulating human capital – for which adequate consumption is indispensable – economic growth would be more likely to slow than rise.
But advances in computing were indispensable to further progress.
Creating more points of contact – back-channel diplomacy conducted by special envoys (a formula used effectively by Singh and former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf), direct contact between the two militaries (of which there is little), and extensive people-to-people contact – is indispensable to the peace effort.
But, even after causing a once-in-a-century recession and unemployment for millions, finance looks indispensable for preventing an even worse catastrophe: climate change.
Other indispensable elements of any effective strategy include expanded help for or pressure on Turkey to do much more to stem the flow of recruits to the Islamic State.
A caudillo can make key decisions alone, because popular support is personalized: only he is indispensable.
These tasks cannot be accomplished unilaterally – multilateral cooperation is indispensable.
With that, amidst roars of victory, an era was ended, reaffirming the old saying that “the graveyards of the world are full of those who considered themselves indispensable to their nations.”
Determined efforts such as these are indispensable to dispelling the shadows in which informal economic activity exists.
When it comes to human lives, characterized as they are by contingency and narrativeness, stories are an indispensable way of knowing.
Other countries such as Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, and Poland will also have a role to play, but France and Germany are indispensable.
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