But friends, let's pause for a second, and ask: When did performance anxiety and guilt become prerequisites for offering family and friends nourishment hospitality?
Subtle forays into the lives of ordinary people, his stories lack the verbal pyrotechnics, formal gimmicks and overweening social ambition that have lately become prerequisites for buzz and the stock in trade of hot novelists like Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen and Jonathan Safran Foer.
Per Kirkeby's striking visual designs for Peter Martins's "Romeo + Juliet" are neither pretty nor opulent, two things that sadly seem to have become prerequisites for big narrative ballets.
As complexity and unpredictability exist in nature, careful observations and interpretations of what can be measured in the field become prerequisites for geotechnical engineers to conduct safe and economical construction works.
Hence transdisciplinarity, comparative analysis, and a critical self-reflexivity become prerequisites for successful theory and practice in the geohumanities, as does confronting the thorny issue of incommensurablityamong epistemological alternatives.
In the future, a priori registration, open access to trial data, and open access publications have to become prerequisites for receiving grant money funded by tax payers.
Your political label becomes the prerequisite for membership in your social set.
When capital is dominant, purchasing power becomes a prerequisite for such basic human rights as safe, clean, affordable housing.
In this context it becomes a prerequisite to improve the efficiency of the existing processes used for monoclonal antibody production.
When Gove suggested that the experts should not be trusted because they have a vested interest in what they are saying, that was his point: once knowledge becomes a prerequisite of power, then it no longer speaks for itself.
