That is an essential precondition for doing so much else in politics – in terms of public engagement, and engaging the public and private sector in pursuit of jobs.
Across the country, graft was a precondition of doing business.
They know that as one precondition for doing so they will have to keep their national currencies stable against the euro for at least two years after joining the EU.
In this context we presuppose the categories of empirical or physical induction and of differential equations as necessary preconditions for doing science.
If, in fact, suffering is a precondition for these individuals to do anything great, and if they have internalized the norm that suffering must be alleviated, and that happiness is the ultimate goal, then we run the risk that, rather than — to put it crudely — suffer and create, they will instead waste their energies pursuing pleasure, lamenting their suffering and seeking to alleviate it.
The crisis, he claims, passionately if not all that persuasively, provides "a moment of possibility" to change performance measures as a precondition for altering what people do.
Cheap paper was a precondition for mass literacy, but that does not render the unfettered freedom to make paper inherently more valuable than the unfettered freedom to read and write books.
There may be good reason for such cautiousness: In corporate finance, the presence of semi-strong efficient capital markets is usually thought a precondition for deploying the Capital Asset Pricing Model to do DCF valuation; it is not typically grounds for discounting such approaches.
We regarded the referees' football knowledge as a precondition for their FIFA employment and did not test them on the questionnaire.
The proportion of reports of registered trials was significantly higher in journals that mentioned and required trial registration as a precondition for publication than those that did not mention trial registration directly in their author instructions (p=0.04).
The Palestinians are pushing for Mr. Sharon to accept the Mitchell report fully, as they say they do, as a precondition for any actions on their part.
