Sentence examples for almost as essential from inspiring English sources

But the definition of war crime became almost as essential to my work in Kosovo as my pen and notebook or my tape recorder.

The Mail on Sunday's Craig Brown went further, acclaiming the book as "an unfussy and clear-headed study of the making of a poet, and. . . a gentle reminder that poetry can be almost as essential to the human spirit as breathing".

Computer literacy today is almost as essential as having ordinary literacy and numeracy skills.

Your rollout strategy in L.A. is almost as essential as your value proposition itself given its unique size and distance.

Executives at Novell dream that Digitalme will become a widely used tool, one that will seem almost as essential as a Web browser.

Executives at Novell dream that Digitalme will become a widely used tool that will seem almost as essential as a Web browser.

Even though the World Bank and other forecasters still expect China's GDP to grow by 7.5% in 2009, that is below the 8% level regarded, almost superstitiously, as essential if huge social dislocation is to be avoided.

Almost as common and essential a medium as watercolor and ivory is human hair.

In other scripts, insurers are shown as profit-hungry companies that deny patients prescription drugs, which are almost always depicted as essential for health and life.

In the 30 years since early lateral reflections were first suggested as important for concert halls, spatial impression and source broadening have become almost universally accepted as essential characteristics of halls with good acoustics.

"One family comes every year from the Old Kent Road in London," says Sam. "They see a visit as essential – almost more important than paying their mortgage.