Sentence examples for essentials means from inspiring English sources

Falling unemployment has helped many families to keep their heads above the water, but slow wage growth, benefit squeezes and rises in the cost of essentials means there are still a shamefully high number living in poverty in the UK today.

They cited the utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer, who famously pointed out that spending money on non-essentials means valuing your comfort over the lives of people starving elsewhere in the world.

For Mumbaikars trains are an essential means of transport.

As Alan Johnson, a former home secretary, pointed out, biometrics were an essential means of identification.

Vision screening is an essential means of identifying children at risk of developing amblyopia.

"Successive governments, committed to increasing mobility, have regarded educational policy as the essential means to this end," Goldthorpe observes.

The power to pardon is an essential means of justice, allowing a governor to right what the law got wrong.

Instead of investing in upgrading this essential means of public transport, the governor, a civil engineer, wants to widen the street for cars.

In one response, he said: "The political centre has lost its power to persuade and its essential means of connection to the people it seeks to represent.

Making matters worse, the Taliban have issued a new decree threatening death to any relief worker caught using a satellite telephone, an essential means of communication.

Cellphones are widely considered essential means of self-expression, he pointed out, but the phones are so cheap that employees can afford to buy their own.