Sentence examples for essential to telling from inspiring English sources

"We've had long and vigorous debate in the newsroom and concluded that publishing the cartoons is not essential to telling the story," Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, wrote to me in an e-mail Friday evening.

It is an artifact from a time when chopping down trees was essential to telling the news, and when you couldn't get The New York Times or The Washington Post closer to your bed than the front door, where the local paper lies, sopping wet.

Each and every role is essential to telling a story onstage.

Worried that it would interrupt her training, her father, Wu Yuming, told reporters, "It was essential to tell this white lie".

Q. Dear Civil Behavior: Do you think it is essential to tell aging grandparents, in this case ultra right-wingers, that their granddaughter is in a relationship with a woman?

"Swamplandia!" is a retrospective look at a place that no longer exists, so within the book, for Ava's character, I think it was essential to tell this story — it becomes her way of truly saving her home and her family.

It's essential to tell the story.

The third narrative that is essential to tell about McCain, particularly in light of the current economic situation, is the same one Bill Clinton told about George H.W. Bush in 1992: that he is out of touch with the concerns of everyday Americans.

Be careful, to prevent scammers, it's essential not to tell others your personal information unless you want to go further.

If a word isn't essential to the telling of the story, or the semantics of the sentence, omit it.

This bring us to the press, whose essential job is to tell us the truths we need to know in order to function as competent citizens.