Sentence examples for but indispensable from inspiring English sources

He was put in charge of many quotidian but indispensable things, including the White House's limousines.

A coordinated bank recapitalization is "not only obvious but indispensable," Mr. Barroso said in Brussels.

"To sum up the U.N. in three words: flawed but indispensable," Mr. Holbrooke said.

"A high school education is now all but indispensable," Judge Kaye wrote.

In certain circumstances, a small amount of state intervention is not just legitimate but indispensable".

All these lines of work are dangerous but indispensable, as whaling once was, but none seem perfectly analogous.

Perhaps Saturday Night Live has become so associated with presidential election campaigns because they are both imperfect but indispensable.

They were exhausted but indispensable, at a time when the Giants' defensive line was frayed by injury.

Finally, it would send an unmistakable message that integrity, self-scrutiny and candor are not evidence of weakness, but indispensable attributes of leadership in an ever changing world.

But music videos did not become ubiquitous until the advent of MTV (Music TeleVision) in 1981 made them an all but indispensable adjunct to marketing a song.

Timothy Geithner, Paulson's ally and protègè, remains Obama's trusted all-but-indispensable Treasury Secretary.