In the 1980s, a time when playing on copies of old instruments first became requisite for serious performance of old music, some period ensembles had sets of wind instruments commissioned so that they could perform a range of repertoire.
With budget cuts to our military looming, this responsibility will only become more requisite in the coming years.
But I would avoid the sushi, which has now become a requisite appetizer at restaurants with little aptitude for it.
"And I asked, 'What's a halfpipe?' " The halfpipe has become the requisite backyard fixture for a burgeoning generation of aspiring skate punks -- mostly boys under 18.
It has by now become a requisite element of the political conventions: the slickly produced short films made to excite not only convention delegates but television viewers at home.
But "No New Taxes" has become the requisite for membership in today's G.O.P. Without a tax increase there will never be a bipartisan deal and without a bipartisan deal there will never be a solution because no party will ever take sole responsibility for the brutal spending cuts that are also required to reduce the debt.
Now, they are more often used to commemorate suffering — it is hard to imagine anyone building a triumphal arch these days — and have become a requisite stage in the collective grieving process, a means of dealing with cultural trauma, and perhaps a way of starting to move on.
The notion that an anchor might be much more than merely a news reader was furthered by the advent of the team of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley at NBC in 1956, with Brinkley adding sophisticated wit to the anchor repertory and Huntley sounding what would soon become the requisite basso profundo notes of moral sobriety.
In its twenty-two year history, that plump, beige creation — honeydew-like in weight and circumference, filled with a cylindrical core of wild-rice stuffing whose flavor is not significantly different from its chewy, tofu-and-gluten shell — has become a requisite part of vegetarian-friendly Thanksgiving tables from San Francisco to Kalamazoo.
As creativity has become a requisite skill for engineers and a part of their basic training, one of the challenges in engineering education is to supply students with a good understanding of creativity and development tools.
